Skip to main content

Agonism and Social Status

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Book cover Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Alcock, J. (2005). Animal behavior: An evolutionary approach. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andersson, M. (1984). The evolution of eusociality. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 15, 165–189.

    Google Scholar 

  • Colleter, M., & Brown, C. (2011). Personality traits predict hierarchy rank in male rainbowfish social groups. Animal Behaviour, 81, 1231–1237.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fogden, M. (2000). Snakes: The evolution of mystery in nature. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garandeau, C. F., Lee, I. A., & Salmivalli, C. (2014). Inequality matters: Classroom status hierarchy and adolescents’ bullying. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-013-0040-4.

  • Grengard, S. (2007). Bearded dragon. Hoboken: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huntingford, F. (1984). The study of animal behaviour. London: Chapman and Hall.

    Google Scholar 

  • Langley, E. J. G., van Horik, J. O., Whiteside, M. A., Beardsworth, C. E., & Madden, J. R. (2018). The relationship between social rank and spatial learning in pheasants, Phasianus colchicus: Cause of consequence? PeerJ, 6, e5738.

    Google Scholar 

  • Manning, A., & Dawkins, M. A. (1998). An introduction to animal behavior. Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mitani, J. C., Call, J., Kappeler, P. M., Palombit, R. A., & Silk, J. B. (Eds.). (2012). The evolution of primate societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Munro, A. D., & Pitcher, T. J. (1985). Steroid hormones and agonistic behavior in a cichlid teleost, Aequidens pulcher. Hormones and Behavior, 19, 353–371.

    Google Scholar 

  • Purves, D., Augustine, G. J., Fitzpatrick, D., et al. (Eds.). (2001). Neuroscience. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates.

    Google Scholar 

  • Raveling, D. G. (1970). Dominance relationships and agonistic behavior in Canada geese in winter. Behaviour, 37, 291–318.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sands, J., & Creel, S. (2004). Social dominance, aggression and faecal glucocorticoid levels in a wild population of wolves, Canis lupus. Animal Behaviour, 67, 387–396.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sapolsky, R. M. (2004). Social status and health in humans and other animals. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33, 393–418.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schenkel, R. (1967). Submission: Its features and function in the wolf and dog. American Zoologist, 7, 319–329.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shine, R. (1990). Function and evolution of the frill of the frillneck lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii (Sauria: Agamidae). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 40, 11–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • Snyder-Mackeler, N., Sanz, J., Kohn, J. N., Brinkworth, J. F., Morrow, S., Shaver, A. O., Grenier, J. C., Pique-Regi, R., Johnson, Z. P., Wilson, M. E., Barreiro, L. B., & Tung, J. (2016). Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques. Science, 354, 1041–1045.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vandeleest, J. J., Beisner, B. A., Hannibal, D. L., Nathman, A. C., Capitanio, J. P., Hsieh, F., Atwill, E. R., & McCowan, B. (2016). Decoupling social status and status certainty effects on health in macaques: A network approach. PeerJ, 4, e2394.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vestergaard, K. S., Kruijt, J. P., and Hogan, J. A. (1993). Feather pecking and chronic fear in groups of red junglefowl: Their relations to dustbathing, rearing environment and social status. Animal Behaviour, 45:1127–1140.

    Google Scholar 

  • Watts, H. E., & Holekamp, K. E. (2007). Hyena societies. Current Biology, 17, R657–R660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.002.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Sarah M. Huskisson .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Section Editor information

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

Huskisson, S.M. (2019). Agonism and Social Status. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1688-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1688-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47829-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-47829-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and PsychologyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics