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Police failed to attend 40pc of shoplifting reports at Co-op

Police failed to attend 40 per cent of shoplifting incidents where covert store staff detained the offender, research by Co-op has revealed. ....

Matt Hood , Emmeline Taylor , City University Of London , Co Op Food , City University , Social Behaviour , Policing Act , Criminal Justice Bill , Co Op , Police Chiefs , Hoplifting Incidents ,

"Effect of social context on behaviour in anemonefish hierarchies" by Lucia Yllan, Siobhan Heatwole et al.

Animal social groups can be organized in hierarchies where individual status determines privileges within the group, and stability is maintained through conflict (aggression–submission) and cooperation. Aggression, submission and cooperation are not homogeneous among group members and are influenced by social context and associated trade-offs. However, studies of rank-specific behaviours are rare which limits our understanding of these patterns. Here, we performed rank ascension experiments using 15 groups of Amphiprion clarkii, a relatively mobile anemonefish, to assess rank-specific behaviour related to social context. We showed that promoted ranks increased cooperation rates compared to nonpromoted ranks to fulfil the tasks associated with their new status within the group. Group size had no effect on cooperation rates, although it did influence rates of submission and neutral interactions, and subordinates did not increase cooperation after group size reduction. Thus, subordinate ....

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