TY - JOUR T1 - The Effects of Dominance on Leadership and Energetic Gain: A Dynamic Game between Pairs of Social Foragers A1 - Rands, Sean A. Y1 - 2011/10/20 N2 - Author Summary Dominance hierarchies could offer interacting animals a quick way to settle disputes without having to use too much effort. However, individuals may pay a price for acknowledging their position within the hierarchy, which could influence how they choose to behave within the group. Consequently, the actions of the group may be shaped by the effects of the hierarchy on each of the group’s members. I consider the behaviour of a pair that consists of a dominant and a subordinate individual, where the subordinate pays an energetic cost when it interacts with the dominant. I show that having to pay this cost affects the behaviour of the pair. I also demonstrate that, although a social hierarchy is imposed, the behaviour of the pair is not determined by the dominance relationship, but is instead influenced by the energetic reserves of the pair, where the decision-maker may just be whoever is the hungriest. JF - PLOS Computational Biology JA - PLOS Computational Biology VL - 7 IS - 10 UR - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002252 SP - e1002252 EP - PB - Public Library of Science M3 - doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002252 ER -