Quick Take Pecking orders are real and chickens form dominance hierarchies that influence daily access to food and water, ...

With the autumn bird-feeding season swinging into high gear, now’s the perfect time to take your bird-watching skills to the next level. Next time you fill your feeder, look more closely at the birds ...

When someone tells you where you stand in a pecking order, they are allocating you a place in a hierarchy. You may not be happy about it, but at least you know your place! Dominance hierarchies are ...

In a rooster-peck-rooster world, rank has its privileges. The male at the peak of the pecking order almost always crows first in the morning, researchers say. After the top bird’s inaugural ...

Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who coined the term 'pecking order.' Since then researchers have examined the intricacies of conflict and ...

It is the sound that heralds the dawning of a new day, but it seems a cockerel's crow also reveals something about the pecking order in the farm yard. Biologists have discovered roosters follow a ...

There’s a sauce at Pecking Order I want to smear on everything I eat for the rest of my life. It’s made of soy sauce, vinegar, chicken livers and magic. It’s called P.O. (Pecking Order) sauce on the ...

American Thanksgiving and turkeys are forever, inextricably linked together. Turkey may very well have been served at the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth more than 400 years ago, and today the ...

Most Americans are generally familiar that there is a “pecking order” when it comes to government. The federal government sits at the top, then come the states followed by the counties, and then all ...

Less than a week after Liberation Day, the White House seems to have changed both the playbook and the pecking order regarding its reciprocal tariff campaign. Perhaps the stock market plunge, or the ...