subordinates

Fish diet to avoid fights

...dividuals retain their position in a hierarchy. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to terrorise their subordinates and grab more of the food for themselves, so keeping their rivals small. The CoECRS team has established that subordinate members of the group can ...

Fishes Use Threat of Punishment in Mating Process

... Dr Wong said that experimentally it has always proved extremely difficult to demonstrate how higher animals, such as apes, use punishment to control subordinates and discourage anti-social activity because of the difficulty in observing and interpreting their behaviour. In the case of the gobies the eff...

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The importance of being helpful -- Cooperative cichlids boost their own reproductive success

...rom the care-giving they offer as the more helpful subordinates are more likely to reproduce. A number of hypot...ound no evidence that the helping behaviour of the subordinates was an example of reciprocal altruism, even though...he lays her eggs. Heg and colleagues show that subordinates may be prepared to increase their care "payments" ...

Egalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene?

...n political actors behave as equal. Some anthropologists argue that in egalitarian societies the pyramid of power is turned upside down with potential subordinates being able to express dominance over potential alpha-individuals by creating large, group-wide political alliance. What were the reasons for such a...

A helping hand from the grandparents

...the helpers are usually offspring from previous years who, because of a lack of breeding opportunities elsewhere, stay within the territory and become subordinates who help their parents rear more young. In the case of the Seychelles warbler, co-operative breeding occurs because the island is full and many bi...

Humans and monkeys share Machiavellian intelligence

...oking. In rhesus society, dominants always travel in business class and subordinates in economy, and if the flight is overbooked, its the subordinates who get bumped off the plane, Maestripieri said. Social status can make th...

Primate behavior explained by computer 'agents'

...ing agents programmed with two rules stay in a group for safety and pester subordinates until they move away scientists found that their more dominant agents woul...y to the centre of the group. This desire to stay in a group and pick on subordinates could be an evolutionary mechanism that helps protect the more dominant and...

The higher the hierarchy, the greater the aggression

... all group members and then repeatedly removing the dominant wasps. When individuals were experimentally promoted in rank, their aggression toward subordinates increased radically, suggesting that aggression depends on rank rather than vice versa and that particularly high levels of aggression are used by new...

Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile

... When pregnant, dominant female meerkats subject their subordinates to escalating aggression and temporary eviction causing them to become over...ecome pregnant, kill the young of other female group members, dominants and subordinates alike....

subordinates in Biological Technology

We Need Techo-Savy Leaders - Dont just blame government and education for economic problems

...arked shift in what directors value (what they look for and insist on) in their executive leadership. It is no longer sufficient for a CEO to rely on subordinates to deal with the complex, technical issues facing the business. Modern business leaders are increasingly expected to understand and anticipate techno...

Former Thompson lawyer comments on Doyle stem cell executive order

...o areas like the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Historically, it is a device that has been used by the state's chief executive to instruct subordinates in the execution of their discretionary powers. Earlier this week, a key lawmaker who often disagrees with Doyle on embryonic stem cell research s...