Wild Times
NADINE DREYER | Why alpha chickens stage coop d’etats and female hyena are Margaret Thatchers
There’s little democracy in the natural world because virtually every species has a pecking order
24 August 2022 - 22:02
Once upon a time, at the turn of the 20th-century, there was a little boy who used to holiday with his parents at a country retreat in Norway...
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