Simple Summary The economic sustainability of beef herds relies on achieving a reliable
percentage of weaned calves. Efforts to lift reproductive efficiency of beef herds have …

Cattle are gregarious animals able to form social relationships. Dominance is one of the
most widely studied social behaviors of dairy cattle, especially cows confined indoors …

In cattle, both males and females of horned breeds have permanent horns which are directly
connected with the frontal sinuses of the skull and are growing during their entire life. To …

Although social hierarchies are recognized as dynamic systems, they are typically treated as
static entities for practical reasons. Here, we ask what we can learn from a dynamical view of …

Dominance hierarchies can be interconnected with behaviours that are essential to manage
social living, such as affiliative behaviours and social play, whose importance can already …

Group is an essential resource for gregarious animals. Dairy cows are however frequently
(re-) grouped according to productivity and reproductive state leading to an unstable social …

Allogrooming is a common affiliative behaviour with hygienic, physiological and social
consequences, and has historically been examined in non‐human primates in order to …

Density dependence plays an important role in population regulation in the wild. It involves a
decrease in population growth rate when the population size increases. Fifty years ago …

It is believed that domestic dogs rarely form packs with age-graded hierarchical structures
similar to those found in wolves. Dog-wolf comparisons in captivity suggest that human …

Feeding behavior in dairy cattle has a significant impact on feed efficiency, which is
important for increasing the profitability of livestock and, at the same time, reducing the …