It's A Female Bonobo's World: Ecologists Propose New Tools to Assess Sex and Power among Wild Animals
Published:25 May2022 Source:Cell Press
In the wild, it might seem like male animals run the show. But in a review publishing in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on May 18, researchers lay a new framework to assess power distribution between the sexes, and its application shows that in some animal species, females rule the roost and that their paths to power look very different than their male counterparts'.
Social power among animal species has typically been categorized as being either male dominated or female dominated.