Mr. Sg read a cat social-structure book, and, in feral colonies, it is customary to allow one who already has a favorable geographic position to keep it until he/she is finished, and then it is the next cat’s turn to go. IOW, whoever’s there first has dibs. No bickering, no complaining, no nada. One of Fluffy’s behaviors when he was still an outdoor kitten was that he’d gulp down a little bit of the food I brought out and then gather all the other kittens (obviously not his sibs) so that they could eat, too. He was far too nice a kitty to leave outside. There was another, tinier dark kitten who was very hostile, hissing, etc., even when it knew I brought it food. Not long after, one of our dogs got a hold of that one and I found it dead in the middle of the backyard.
I’ll back that up. When we were feeding some feral cats, the leader of the cat-pack was very nice to the others.
One of the least approachable didn’t seem to thrive.