i had no idea where the term pecking order came from. Chickens have hierarchies. So he thought, would happen if we threw a rench into that? All hell breaks loose. The chickens start pecking each other and have this huge brawl. But then they lie totally calmed down and are placid again. He investigates the alpha hen has almost no pecks on hera down to the poor little hen whose bottom of the totum pol she is so pecked that many times she dies. And so he invented the term the pecking orderhe says, the pecking Order is for the alpha up here, all the way down to the betas down here. She