Pay respect to the elders: age, more than body mass, determines dominance in female beef cattle

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.10.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.10.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pay respect to the elders: age, more than body mass, determines dominance in female beef cattle

Original language description

Dominance hierarchies in groups of social animals can be based either on asymmetries that are important for agonistic interactions (such as body mass) or on more ?conventional- cues (such as age), which are respected despite having little relationship tothe animal's fighting abilities. We investigated how social dominance is influenced by age and body mass in a herd of 29-39 beef cows over a 10year period, focusing on all levels of the dominance hierarchy (individual, dyadic and group). The results demonstrate that age prevails over body mass in the structuring of the dominance network in beef cattle. At the individual level, path analysis confirmed that the dominance index of a cow was more strongly associated with her age than with her body mass. Atthe dyadic level, age superiority had a stronger influence on the direction of social dominance in pairs than body mass superiority. Older cows were dominant in 73,6 % of those dyads studied, even when the younger cow was heavier. At the

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GG - Zootechnics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Animal Behaviour

ISSN

0003-3472

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

86

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1315-1323

UT code for WoS article

000327537800023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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