Aggression and submission reflect reproductive conflict between females in cooperatively breeding meerkats Suricata suricatta

By Nobuyuki Kutsukake, T. H. Clutton-Brock. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2006

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Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, background): “Similarly, in Kalahari meerkats, foraging females usually respect 493 each other’s access to feeding sites and seldom contest access to feeding sites, 494 though the most dominant female in each group occasionally displaces 495 subordinates (Kutsukake & Clutton-Brock 2006a).”
Sociality in cats: A comparative review (2016, background): “In 1 of thefirst such studies, Macdonald et al. (1987) proposed that allorubbing, which is usually initiated by the younger and/or smaller of 2 interacting cats, might be an indicator of such affiliative bonds, but this suggestion does not appear to have been investigated further.”
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats (2012, background): “…of magnitude higher than other individuals, are the targets of regular submissive behaviours from others and, in the case of dominant females, are typically the only females in the group to breed, or breed more often than other females (Clutton-Brock et al. 1998; Kutsukake & Clutton-Brock 2006).”