Social Status and Mating Activity in Elephant Seals.

by: Burney J J Le Boeuf, Richard S S Peterson

Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 163, No. 3862. (3 January 1969), pp. 91-93.

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Abstract

Individually marked male elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris, observed on an island off central California participate in a social hierarchy resembling the peck order of domestic chickens. Individuals achieve status by fighting and maintain it by stereotyped threat displays. The higher the status of a male, the more readily he approaches and copulates with females. Four percent of the males inseminated 85 percent of the females.

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