In general, the more dominant animals will be more aggressive than their subordinates.
The Rottweiler, when working cattle, searches out the dominant animal and challenges it.
Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal.
By submitting to its stronger peer they avoid an aggressive act from the dominant animal.
Natural selection must therefore be favouring the dominant animals.
This was the contemptuous nipping approach of the dominant animal.
They were the dominant flying animals of their time." "
Four led to enormously successful groups, including the dominant animals of our world today; all the others died without issue.
Some do tend to get chunky, like the dominant animal in a group that always gets its fill, but most stay lean.
The tribes of man became the dominant animal in temperate zones.