Pecking Order facts
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Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe observed that groups of chickens, and particularly hens, establish a dominance hierarchy primarily by pecking each other. This gave rise to the term "pecking order" to refer to the hierarchy in status amongst members of any group.
Chickens have a literal pecking order, where the dominant chickens peck lower-ranking chickens and cause severe injuries
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Crows joust in mid-air to determine their pecking order.
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Turkeys have pecking orders, by which one dominant individual may peck every other in a flock without the risk of being pecked back, the second ranked may peck every other, with its superior being the exception, and the lowest ranked may not peck any other individual without retaliation.
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In the pecking order of domesticated animals, we're the top chicken.
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The term Pecking order comes from chickens hierarchy dominance scale
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Farmers used to put red eyeglasses, in order to prevent chickens from pecking and cannibalism if they saw an injured chicken
