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Define the meaning of Hierarchical Social Structure.

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A fundamental aspect of social organization that is established by fighting or display behavior and results in a ranking of the animals in a group. The simplest dominance hierarchies are linear and are known as pecking orders. ... In such a hierarchy the top individual (alpha) dominates all others.
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