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We standardized cortisol values within each species by calculating the ratio of basal cortisol concentrations of subordinates to those of dominants in stable dominance hierarchies and expressing the ratio as a percentage (relative cortisol levels).

Another is stable dominance, where the powerful relentlessly and permanently dominate the rest.

Based on this effect, stable dominance relationships emerge in which only the dominant individual is willing to escalate in conflicts and thus always obtain the resource.

In South American species, either the females (S. boliviensis) or males (S. sciureus) are dominant over the other sex, and both sexes form stable dominance hierarchies.

In various primate species, social life is organised in terms of clear and stable dominance hierarchies.

Ants were taken from fully reproductive colonies that fulfilled the following criteria: i) the minimum size of the colony was 80 ants, ii) the colonies contained eggs, larvae and pupae, iii) the colonies showed an established and stable dominance hierarchy.

However, lower values of T led to longer and thus more costly fights and lower values of U led on average to more fights because individuals would more often fight not only in the first conflict but also in subsequent conflicts before 'agreeing' on a stable dominance-subordinate relationship.

Data from these subjects yielded 3281 epochs of stable perceptual dominance with approximately equal incidence of left eye and right eye dominance (1805 left eye; 1476 right eye).

After the data were recorded, behavioural indices of perceptual switching were computed to determine the number of epochs of stable perceptual dominance lasting 700 ms or longer.

Aggression amongst males is extremely rare [26] but males form and maintain stable, linear dominance hierarchies determined by non-aggressive displacements (after an approach, one male jumps back from another), with older males (>2 years of age) being the most dominant [24], [26].

Stable individualized dominance hierarchies are characterized by dyadic resolved relations, in which the same individual from a dyad keeps winning the conflicts (unidirectional dyad).