Dominance in relation to age, sex, and competitive contexts in a group of free-ranging domestic dogs

By S. Cafazzo, P. Valsecchi, R. Bonanni, E. Natoli. 2010

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Group composition effects on aggressive interpack interactions of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park (2015, background): “Age often affects an individual’s willingness to participate in aggressive interactions (Pal et al. 1998; Hyman et al. 2004; Majolo et al. 2005; Cafazzo et al. 2010).”
To be or not to be social: foraging associations of free-ranging dogs in an urban ecosystem (2013, background): “273 274 Dogs are known to have descended from wolves that live and hunt in packs (Mech 1970), and 275 have been shown to be social in several studies (Font 1987; Pal et al. 1998, Cafazzo et al 2010).”
Greetings promote cooperation and reinforce social bonds among spotted hyaenas (2011, background): “Although spotted hyaena greetings are still cited as one of the key examples of ‘reliable ritualized expressions of formal rank’ (Cafazzo et al. 2010, page 444), our critical test of the submission hypothesis revealed that this does not in fact appear to be the case.”