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glass doors which allowed them full sight of each 

 other. When the glass doors were opened the cocks 

 ran toward each other. The point of meeting was 

 proportional to the relative position of the two in 

 the social scale, for the more dominant bird traveled 

 farther than the subordinate one. 



In another experiment two cocks were placed in 

 small wire cages in which they were plainly visible, 

 and these cages were set in an enclosure about six 

 feet apart. If a third male from the flock were intro- 

 duced into the pen the free bird would go toward 

 the caged cock which was relatively lower in the 

 social scale. In this it behaved exactly opposite to 

 the females which were members of the same flock 

 and "acquainted" with both roosters. A hen released 

 under similar conditions is said to make her way 

 toward the cock that has the higher social position. 



In our studies we have usually found that the 

 birds higher in the social order had more social 

 contacts than those that were at the bottom of the 

 peck-order. The correlation is not always exact, but 

 to date we have found few exceptions to the rule 

 that the bird lowest in the peck-order has the fewest 

 contacts. A quantitative difference, closely associated 

 with social rank, may be found in the number of 

 pecks delivered when there is no difference in the 

 total contacts among the upper birds. In a recent 



