 | Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth - 1990 - 396 pages
...male. Dominance relations among vervets are not only consistent across contexts but also transitive: if A is dominant to B and B is dominant to C, A is invariably dominant to C. As a result, males and females in each group can be arranged in a linear... | |
 | Sara J. Shettleworth - 1998 - 764 pages
...In social groups with a linear dominance hierarchy, dominance relations form a transitive sequence: if A is dominant to B and B is dominant to C, then A will be dominant to C. Animals in such social groups must have to learn dominance relationships, but... | |
 | Jeffrey A. French, Alan C. Kamil, Daniel W. Leger, Martin Daly - 2001 - 250 pages
...and will support one another in an aggressive dispute (for example, Altmann et al., 1996). Similarly, if A is dominant to B and B is dominant to C, it is usually correct to infer that A is dominant to C (Cheney & Seyfarth, 1990). By contrast, if infant... | |
 | Frans B. M. De Waal, Peter L Tyack - 2009 - 650 pages
...bonded and will support one another in an aggressive dispute (eg, Altmann et al. 1996). Similarly, if A is dominant to B and B is dominant to C, it is usually correct to infer that A is dominant to C (Cheney & Seyfarth 1990). By contrast, if infant... | |
 | Bernard Chapais, Carol M. Berman - 2004 - 542 pages
...bonded and will support one another in an aggressive dispute (eg, Altmann et al. l996). Similarly, if A is dominant to B and B is dominant to C, it is usually true that A is dominant to C (Cheney & Seyfarth l990). In other cases, however, transitivity... | |
 | Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth - 2008 - 360 pages
...The birds were tested on their ability to make transitive inferences — that is, to recognize that if A is dominant to B and B is dominant to C, then A must be dominant to C. Transitive inference is crucial to the recognition of relative rank in a dominance... | |
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This means that dominance can't be a purely perceptual relation — it too needs a conceptual basis. In animal societies, dominance relations often fall into a linear order: if A is dominant to B, and B is dominant to C, then A is also dominant to C;... 