The Importance of Hierarchies in Animals

Animals organize themselves into hierarchies around scarce resources so they don't add continual combat to the problem of scarce resources right. Once a hierarchy is established that it tends to be pretty stable because the cost of disrupting it is extremely high now competitive animals especially if they're interested in advancing their mating opportunities will sometimes take the risk to make a move up the hierarchy but they do that at extreme peril and so they do it very carefully.