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		The bigger chick is usually first to be fed and cared for, but as long as there is enough food to support both babies, they both have a good chance of surviving.
		Chickens were the first birds observed developing a linear dominance hierarchy, so we often call this arrangement a pecking order.
		How is their "pecking order" similar to that of a whooping crane cohort?
	www.learner.org /jnorth/tm/crane/PeckingOrder.html (1149 words)

	Pecking order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pecking order is a system of organization among a flock of poultry.
		Still, the term "pecking order" is often used synonymously as well, because the "pecking order" was the first studied example of the social hierarchy among animals.
		The basic concept behind the establishment of the pecking order among, for example, chicken, is that it is necessary to determine who is the 'top chicken,' the 'bottom chicken' and where all the rest fit in between.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pecking_order (258 words)

	Funagain Games: Pecking Order
		When I first saw that Pecking Order was by Richard Garfield and was a card game I couldn't help but hope that it was MTG in a non-collectable format.
		Pecking Order is a great companion to Lost Cities and we felt it was adequately priced.
		Pecking Order is a game that is good for even younger ages (8+), mostly because the game is so simple to learn.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=015977 (2105 words)

	The Freeman Center - Maccabean Online - PECKING ORDER
		The recent episodes involving the publication of political cartoons featuring representations of Muhammed are treating the world to an example of a global phenomenon of a "pecking order." The "pecking order" is a dominance-submission phenom that psychologists have observed among animals of the same species living in close proximity.
		Chickens, for example, establish a pecking order within minutes of being brought together in a coop, the outcome of a violent burst, in which each learns from whom it must endure a peck and to whom below it may administer a peck.
		This new blindness is a must in order to ward off the fear of the Muslims that lies behind their views.
	www.freeman.org /MOL/pages/february-2006/pecking-order.php (1049 words)

	Boardgame News
		Pecking Order (Immortal Eyes Games, 2006 - Richard Garfield), one of the first two games produced by Immortal Eyes, isn’t quite so mainstream.
		Pecking Order is a game that is good for even younger ages (8+), mostly because the game is so simple to learn.
		Beautiful artwork aside, Pecking Order is over before I feel it has a chance to begin.
	www.boardgamenews.com /index.php/boardgamenews/comments/game_review_pecking_order (1257 words)

	Pecking Order in Chickens
		'Pecking order' refers to the relative ranking that often occurs between animals of the same species when they live in close proximity.
		A researcher on animal behavior wants to study the relationship between pecking order and weight.
		He places four chickens in each of seven pens and observes the pecking order that emerges in each pen.
	exploringdata.cqu.edu.au /peck_odr.htm (143 words)

	What This Blog is About « the pecking order: big ideas for ambitious minds
		The Pecking Order's meant to be a forum to voice your opinions either for or against "the next big idea".
		A pecking order, as NYU psych professor Howard Bloom describes it in The Lucifer Principle, is another way to say that we're programmed from micro to macro to duke it out.
		The pecking order, to put it succinctly, is the natural competitive drive that makes us ambitious to the point of crisis.
	thepeckingorder.wordpress.com /about (362 words)

	How you fare in life depends on 'pecking order' in your family
		Because, says Conley, families develop pecking orders that are shaped by larger social forces and their own changing circumstances.
		That's especially true in lower-income families, he says in his new book, "The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why" (Pantheon, 309 pages, $24), because parents often invest the bulk of their limited resources in one promising child.
		While "The Pecking Order" has gotten some notice in the popular press, scholars are just beginning to tune in.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /lifestyle/166529_pecking29.html (1691 words)

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		Farm kids know that chickens in the barnyard have a pecking order wherein one chicken pecks another but is not pecked back, in a descending order from the chicken pecked by none, down to the chicken pecked (or telepecked along a peck-chain -- as "The Three Stooges" slap each other) by all other chickens.
		PECKING ORDER is a MATHTIVITY I developed in 1962 and taught to kindergarten children at The Campus School of Inter American University, San Germán, Puerto Rico, where I was Head of The Mathematics and Physics Departments.
		For, a pecking order is known in MATHEMATICS as a LATTICE, an extension of a PARTIAL ORDERING.
	members.fortunecity.com /jonhays/peckingorder.htm (743 words)

	Pinhead replays 'Pecking Order'
		Class warfare takes center stage in a revival of "The Pecking Order," a social comedy that opens tonight at St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center on Munjoy Hill in Portland.
		Presented by the irreverent Stone Pinhead Ensemble, the provocative comedy played to enthusiastic crowds this past winter and is being restaged this week because ensemble members thought it would be appropriate theater fare in the run up to the November election.
		Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Brett Askari co-wrote "The Pecking Order" with Stone Pinhead Ensemble co-founder John Nichols.
	entertainment.mainetoday.com /theater/040812pecking.shtml (344 words)

	Pecking order in herds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The pecking order starts with the most dominant animal that is the leader.
		The order continues down to the last animal who is the most submissive.
		Submissive horses must be respectful, obedient and dependent in order to survive.
	members.tripod.com /cavanaughc/pecking_order_in_herds.htm (585 words)

	Pecking Order of piranhas in the Aquarium.
		No pecking order is established just protective group posturing.
		There is no real method of preventing piranhas from establishing a pecking order other than being kept solitary in the aquarium.
		They truly are social creatures as reported by some authors of piranha behavior, but their nature is to eat and eat quickly before their food is taken away by a much quicker and hungrier relative.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/piranha038/peckingorder.html (1938 words)

	The Pecking Order in the Singles Hen House
		The basic concept behind the establishment of the pecking order in the hen house is that it is necessary to determine who is the 'top chicken,' the 'bottom chicken' and where all the rest fit in between.
		However, now the researchers have a neurotic orangutan on their hands because his paint is fading rapidly and his position in the orangutan pecking order is slowly descending from the rather heady number one orangutan to his former position of the low man on the orangutan social ladder.
		When you throw a new chicken from another flock into the hen house, there is a certain fluttering of wings, cackling and general turmoil as the new chicken establishes where it fits in the pecking order of that particular hen house.
	www.datingagain101.com /peckingorder.htm (1382 words)

	NCS - Cockatiel Communication - The Pecking Order
		There are many factors to be considered when attempting to understand where a bird fits in the hierarchy of the pecking order.
		When taking color into consideration, in combination with the factors of age and sex, the highest in the pecking order would be adult wild colored male, while the lowest would be young mutation female.
		A lutino hen who is usually pretty meek and mild, and accepting of her place in the pecking order, becomes absolutely ferocious when it comes to defending her nesting territory.
	www.cockatiels.org /articles/behavior/communication3.html (1854 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why: Books: Dalton Conley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Every family has a pecking order independent of birth order, and the differences between siblings are magnified by poverty and disenfranchisement.
		Ultimately, what The Pecking Order reveals is that there is no single factor that can predict one's success or failure in life, but that complex, multilayered familial dynamics play the biggest part in determining our fate.
		Counter to the belief that birth order predicts a child's success and role within a family, he argues that what really matters is family size, parental time and attention, and how much of the family's financial resources are available for the child.
	www.amazon.com /Pecking-Order-Which-Siblings-Succeed/dp/0375421742 (2075 words)

	Equusite.com - Pecking Order in Horse Herds: pecking order, domination and submissiveness, leadership, dominance, ...
		The pecking order starts with the most dominant animal that is the leader.
		The order continues down to the last animal who is the most submissive.
		Submissive horses must be respectful, obedient and dependent in order to survive.
	www.equusite.com /articles/behavior/behaviorPecking.shtml (610 words)

	Pecking Order
		The nearly 6,000-word-long tirade -- which begins "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation" and goes on to pulverize practically everyone in American literature, from William Faulkner to David Foster Wallace -- has the literary world aflame.
		In his St. Marks walk-up, Peck says, "When I see people profaning at the temple of literature, I want to throw them out.
		Peck adds that Wieseltier wouldn't have published a nice review: "He doesn't assign me books that I'm going to like.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/features/6231 (540 words)

	The Grand Pecking Order - Oysterhead, Music Downloads - Online
		The Grand Pecking Order FROM CONNECT - Music Downloads Powered by Sony.
		Make no mistake, the characteristic trademarks of each member are still firmly in place -- Anastasio's fluid guitar passages, Claypool's monstrous low-end bass tone, and Copeland's deft hi-hat and cymbal work -- but unlike many albums by previous supergroups, The Grand Pecking Order never becomes a joyless, ego-driven wank-fest.
		Oysterhead," the circular melodies of "Owner of the World," or the whimsical "Birthday Boys." Ultimately, The Grand Pecking Order provides a great number of satisfying moments and should be of considerable interest to fans of Anastasio, Claypool, and Copeland.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/266/Oysterhead/The-Grand-Pecking-Order/500000000000010102379.html (344 words)

	The Pecking Order
		In each family, there exists a pecking order among siblings, a status hierarchy.
		This pecking order is not necessarily determined by the natural abilities of each individual, and not even by the intentions or will of the parents.
		It is determined by the larger social forces that envelop the family: gender expectations, the economic cost of education, divorce, early loss of a parent, geographic mobility, religious and sexual orientation, trauma, and even arbitrary factors such as luck and accidents.
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/conley/book.html (376 words)

	God's Pecking Order
		Observing the ducks I raise in my pond, I have noticed that they (especially the drakes) love to establish a pecking order to establish their dominance.
		Unfortunately, even children have their particular style of "pecking order," the effects of which can leave lifelong scars.
		Reflecting on that situation, I remembered that God does not have a pecking order.
	people.becon.org /~gprins/i/pecking.html (358 words)

	Emerging Grace: Pecking Order
		Interestingly, it's not always the biggest chicken that is highest in the pecking order.
		The kingdom of God is a social order that is based on love and mutual submission.
		I think house churches are doing away with certain leadership roles, and pecking order.
	emerginggrace.blogspot.com /2006/03/pecking-order.html (833 words)

	Pecking Order: Recognizing the dominant gobbler
		The boss gobbler may not come out of strut at all, his head is usually pulled in close to his body, and his fan is sticking straight up.
		Another clue to identifying pecking order is to watch for attacks from the dominant tom toward other gobblers.
		The big boy may chase the others, or he may just turn their way, causing them to move off or break strut.
	www.myoan.net /huntingart/turkey_hunt_pecking_order.html (336 words)

	Pecking Order, Competition, Institution, Government and Economic Policy
		Pecking Order, Competition, Institution, Government and Economic Policy
		pecking-order n (1928) 1: the basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank; broadly: a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals 2: a social hierarchy
		The 'statistically reliable' observation that 'Everything (perceived) has a container (of it)' -a fact of this as-observed-space, does not imply/need-of or constitute phenomenology of 'a container for an unobservable universe -a Creator of the space and its order'.
	www.condition.org /pecking.htm (1667 words)

	Minilesson on Pecking order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Myers and Majuf’s famous 1984 pecking order hypothesis attempts to
		are mixed, currently the “the pecking order does not work” camp has the
		pecking order hypothesis does not fit the evidence.
	www.financeprofessor.com /mba610/Minilesson_on_Pecking_order.html (195 words)

	Northpinellas: Pecking order emerges for city ballot measures
		With 10 changes being proposed, the City Commission decides to list what it considers to be most important first.
		Clearwater voters stop reading their ballots after a certain point, but don't have as bad a reputation as some, Akin said.
		"The order probably doesn't matter that much," she said.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/12/19/Northpinellas/Pecking_order_emerges.shtml (396 words)

	Halfbakery: Pecking Order Sofa
		All of this ends with the arrival of the Pecking Order Sofa.
		The layers below are less desirable in descending order until ground level is reached where the runts and crawlers reside, who must serve the needs of those immediately above.
		This includes insults, orders, empty plates of food, crisp and biscuit wrappers, beer bottles, smelly socks, and other nefarious personal jetsam such as dandruff and nose pickings.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Pecking_20Order_20Sofa (376 words)

	Pecking Order Figurine
		Three of nature's beloved creatures show us the "proper" order of sleeping arrangements.
		"Pecking Order" is "The Last Laugh" is a box figurine in the Small Treasure Jests(TM) collection by artist Peter Calvesbert for Harmony Kingdom, The Original Box Figurine(TM).
		Our 365-day guarantee means you have a whole year to return your order for 100% of everything you paid including postage.
	www.collectiblestoday.com /ss/1619788001.html (150 words)

	Tampabay: A new pecking order
		TAMPA -- Sharon Donofrio heard the noise coming from the back of a home in Hunter's Green, an upscale neighborhood in New Tampa.
		As she peeked around the side of the house, she saw the source: Two sandhill cranes were pecking at the home's screened enclosure.
		The noise stopped when a woman emerged from the house and put a bowl of food down for the birds.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/05/13/TampaBay/A_new_pecking_order.shtml (844 words)

	Halfbakery: Pecking Order Wristwatch
		Notifies you when you meet someone higher or lower than you in the pecking order
		Ah, but when you're new on the job, you don't know what all the bosses or the interns look like.
		I'm not sure if it would work for those relatively close to you in the pecking order, but it's always been a truism among interviewers that you will succeed best if you treat celebrities like common people and you treat common people like celebrities.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Pecking_20Order_20Wristwatch (496 words)

	Amazon.com: The Grand Pecking Order: Music: Oysterhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the end, this mix of clunky funk and decadent weirdness is maddening almost as much as it is rewarding, but The Grand Pecking Order has a sinister futuristic quality that is simply too peculiar to ignore.
		There are a few songs that do sound distinctly like Primus ("Shadow of a Man," "Army's on Ecstasy," and "The Grand Pecking Order" in particular.) Even then, they are still great songs.
		To be fair, there are echoes of Primus and Phish scattered all throughout The Grand Pecking Order.
	www.amazon.com /Grand-Pecking-Order-Oysterhead/dp/B00005OL93 (2122 words)

	NewsHog: Progressive Pecking Order
		Yet the progressive, MoveOn supporting, blogosphere is just as guilty of being unresponsive and elitist in it's attitudes, which may well become a crucial flaw in the system.
		The major progressive bloggers (Matt, Kevin, Kos, Atrios etc.) all quote each other, but rarely if ever make the effort to quote someone who is not a relative equal in the unspoken pecking order.
		All this may be sour grapes from one of those insignificant microbes, but if you are a liberal blogger at the lower end of the pecking order, I am betting you don't think so.
	cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com /2004/12/progressive-pecking-order.html (647 words)

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