If you don’t have your own backyard flock, you may not believe that the chicken pecking order is real, let alone that it’s ...

When someone tells you where you stand in a pecking order, they are allocating you a place in a hierarchy. You may not be happy about it, but at least you know your place! Dominance hierarchies are ...

But they do have their own ways of maintaining social order, which seem to have served their needs well enough over millennia. It’s a bit authoritarian by our standards, but the pecking order – in ...

A video of a chicken pecking at a pint in a pub in Ireland has been denounced by an Irish animal rights organization. The video, which has been viewed more than 30,000 times on Facebook according to ...