Sentences with phrase «complex social hierarchies»

In future, such data may be key to figuring out whether groups of dogs form complex social hierarchies like wild wolves — a hotly debated question in animal psychology.

Dogs have personalities, as any loving owner will attest, but GPS trackers are needed to find out if they form complex social hierarchies like wolves

We know that packs of wolves form complex social hierarchies, and that this behaviour is likely to have evolved because it is good for the pack, which in turn helps protect its members.

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When President Bush talks of a «kinder and gentler» America, he is hearkening back to that complex hierarchy of social, moral and intellectual values and symbols that were once very powerful in this culture, particularly in the churches.

Animals now have the ability to form pack social hierarchies, coordinate complex group tactics and take advantage of the surroundings to set up deadly ambushes.

Some colonies are organized in more complex structures, such as relative hierarchies, where social status of individual cats can vary on their location, the time of day, or the activity the cats are engaged in (particularly feeding and mating).

As with many politically engaged artists whose practices take on complex issues of ethnicity, social justice, and gendered cultural agency, Maiolino deconstructs oppressive hierarchies not only on an institutional scale, but in terms of their everyday manifestations in the daily experiences of the disenfranchised.