He worked his way through the pecking order of teams, scoring regularly for the youth and reserve sides before he was handed his first team debut against Charlton Athletic in October 1956.

Horses organize themselves into small bands with a dominant mare at the top of the pecking order, as well as a resident stallion.

The permanent rosters of most promotions develop a backstage pecking order, with veterans mediating conflicts and mentoring younger wrestlers.

The use of sexual ornamentation as a signaling device to create a dominance hierarchy among males, also known as a pecking order, allows struggle to proceed without excessive injury or fatality.

Individual chickens in a flock will dominate others, establishing a " pecking order ", with dominant individuals having priority for food access and nesting locations.

Removing hens or roosters from a flock causes a temporary disruption to this social order until a new pecking order is established.

However, everything changed after the next Immunity Challenge revealed a distinct pecking order which had Paschal and Neleh eliminated, after Sean, Vecepia, and Kathy were gone.

It also pokes satirical fun at soap operas, New York show business agents and the Manhattan social pecking order.

Many historians have suggested that Hillery was Lemass's first choice to succeed him, however others have said that the Lemass pecking order went as follows: Jack Lynch, Hillery and George Colley.

There is a well-developed social structure within large groups of condors, with competition to determine a ' pecking order ' by body language, competitive play behavior, and a wide variety of vocalizations, even though the condor has no voice box.

He started the 1961 – 62 season behind Hill in the pecking order, only getting his place back in time for a 4 – 0 win over Chelsea after Hill picked up an injury.

So, the alliance changed their pecking order to vote Roger out before the jury and allowing Dave onto the jury.

Convinced she had control over the game, Deena changed the pecking order from Butch to Alex, in case Matthew were to win the next immunity challenge.

Betty Richardson wrote that the store is " the Valhalla, of course, of a consumer society ... populated by acquisitive people who pose as mannequins by daylight ; by night, they emerge to grab what they want ": " Happy to sacrifice all human emotions — love, pity, integrity — for the sake of consumer goods, these denizens have their own pecking order and police.

Crews are overseen usually by a person who stands in a pecking order within the hierarchy of the department, but has no real power or voice.

Within this new system, a pecking order was soon established which left little room for any newcomers.

Attenborough uses a group of farmyard chickens to demonstrate a pecking order.

Caciques are shown cooperating to deter predators, despite their fighta amongst themselves to establish a pecking order.

Over the years the castle has played host to numerous luminaries ; Queen Victoria visited it in 1847, and the Royal connection was further cemented when her daughter, Princess Louise, married the heir to the Campbell chieftainship, the Marquis of Lorne, in 1871, illustrating the elevated position of the Argyll family in the social pecking order of the times.

With Edwin van der Sar signed upon promotion by Fulham, Hahnemann slipped further down the pecking order and to gain playing time, he was loaned out to lower league sides Rochdale, and then, Reading during the 2001 – 02 campaign.

Play sessions among individuals not only serves as a bonding process to rekindle relationships among individuals, but is also a way the species establishes a hierarchy or social pecking order, as well as passive food sharing, which is also considered a common routine in the species.

For a long time, inking was an under-appreciated part of the comics industry, only marginally above lettering in the pecking order.

Semiaggressive fish form a pecking order in the pack which they may extend to other fish, giving them a reputation for nipping at the fins of other fish, especially if they are wounded or injured.

The following season was not so bright, and he found himself dropping down the pecking order.

Their adjustments included placing the " R " key in the place previously allotted to the period key ( this has been claimed to be done with the purpose of enabling salesmen to impress customers by pecking out the brand name " TYPE WRITER " from one keyboard row but this claim is unsubstantiated ).

Divination, a part of many religions is derived from the Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god " and as a part of divination comes alectryomancy, which means rooster and divination respectively, with the intent of communication between the gods and man in which the diviner observes a cock, pecking at grain, with Judaism forbidding acts of divination in the Hebrew Bible.

Several adaptations combine to protect the woodpecker's brain from the substantial pounding that the pecking behaviour causes: it has a relatively thick skull with relatively spongy bone to cushion the brain ; there is very little cerebrospinal fluid in its small subarachnoid space ; the bird contracts mandibular muscles just before impact, thus transmitting the impact past the brain and allowing its whole body to help absorb the shock ; its relatively small brain is less prone to concussion than other animals '.

According to food writer Sharon Tyler Herbst, it is so called because originally it was eaten with the thumb and forefinger, and retrieving and eating the condiment resembled the actions of a pecking rooster.

Early researchers claim, for example, that response pattern ( pecking / bar pressing rate ) is an appropriate analog to human labor supply.

The pigeons are placed in an operant conditioning chamber and through orienting and exploring the environment of the chamber they discover that by pecking a small disk located on one side of the chamber, food is delivered to them.

In effect, pecking behavior becomes reinforced, as it is associated with food.

In this circumstance, the pigeon is said to " work " for the food by pecking.

That is like humans ( who, even in need, will only work so much for a given wage ) the pigeons demonstrate decreases in pecking ( work ) when the reward ( value ) is reduced.

Unlike previous pigeon studies, where the work analog was pecking and the monetary analog was reward, in the studies on demand in rats, the monetary analog is bar pressing.

The beak is relatively weak and used for pecking in soft wood only.

Beak trimming is a preventive measure to reduce damage caused by injurious pecking such as cannibalism, feather pecking and vent pecking, and thereby improve livability.

The first is pecking with occasional probing, usually done by species in drier habitats that do not have soft soils or mud.

The bill's chisel-like tip is kept sharp by the pecking action in birds that regularly use it on wood.

Light intensity is usually low ( e. g. less than one lux ) to reduce feather pecking.

Unlike many tactile feeders their visual field is not panoramic ( allowing for an almost 360 degree field of view ), as during the short breeding season they switch to being visual hunters of mobile, unconcealed prey, which are obtained by pecking.

Most food is obtained by pecking, a smaller proportion is obtained by gleaning off branches.