Female Dominance over Males in Primates: Self-Organisation and Sexual Dimorphism [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 The processes that underlie the formation of the dominance hierarchy in a group are since long under debate. Models of self-organisation suggest that dominance hierarchies develop by the self-reinforcing effects of winning and losing fights (the so-called winner-loser effect), but according to ‘the prior attribute hypothesis’, dominance hierarchies ...
Charlotte K Hemelrijk, Karin Isler
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Male intrasexual aggression and partial dominance of females over males in vervet monkeys
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Females dominate a subset of the males in a minority of mammalian species despite male-biased sexual dimorphism. How this may arise is suggested by a computational model, DomWorld. The model represents male-biased sexual dimorphism through the males’ greater initial dominance and higher intensity of aggression, meaning that fights initiated by males ...
Gerrit Gort +2 more
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Adult sex ratios and partial dominance of females over males in the rock hyrax
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Competition in group-living animals often results in a dominance hierarchy. The sex that is larger (usually the males) generally dominates the one that is smaller (the females). In certain species, however, despite being smaller, the females dominate several males.
Charlotte K Hemelrijk +2 more
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Sexual signalling in female crested macaques and the evolution of primate fertility signals. [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 BACKGROUND: Female signals of fertility have evolved in diverse taxa. Among the most interesting study systems are those of multimale multifemale group-living primates, where females signal fertility to males through multiple signals, and in which there ...
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Social rank overrides environmental and community fluctuations in determining meat access by female chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Meat, long hypothesized as an important food source in human evolution, is still a substantial component of the modern human diet, with some humans relying entirely on meat during certain times of the year.
Boesch, C. +3 more
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Policing in nonhuman primates: partial interventions serve a prosocial conflict management function in rhesus macaques. [PDF]
, 2013 Studies of prosocial policing in nonhuman societies traditionally focus on impartial interventions because of an underlying assumption that partial support implies a direct benefit to the intervener, thereby negating the potential for being prosocial in ...
Beisner, Brianne A, McCowan, Brenda
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A Psychological View of Male Dominance Over the Female Body
International Research Journal of Tamil, 2022 Gender discrimination has existed since the dawn of time. The woman has become the primary recipient since she began living in the wild. The woman has been a hunter and the primary recipient of group decisions. The maternal social system is the life source of our ancestors. Adith Tamils learned about sex by looking at the sex of animals.
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STRATÉGIE ALIMENTAIRE ET DOMINANCE DES FEMELLES PROPITHÈQUE DE VERREAUX (PROPITHECUS V. VERREAUXI) DANS LA FORÊT À DIDIEREACEAE DU SUD DE MADAGASCAR [PDF]
, 2007 International audienceFeeding strategy and social dominance in female sifakas (Propithecus v. verreauxi) living in a Didiereaceae forest in southern Madagascar.
Charrier, Alexandre +2 more
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Male pipefish prefer dominant over attractive females [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2001 Animals may obtain information guiding their choice between potential partners from observing competitive interactions and displays between them, or from displays directed at the choosing individual. In the sex-role reversed pipefish Syngnathus typhle females display a temporary ornament (a color pattern) to other females as well as to males.
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An experimental evaluation of the consistency of competitive ability and agonistic dominance in different social contexts in captive bonobos [PDF]
, 1999 Bonobos have been described as a relatively egalitarian and female dominant species. The exact nature and quality of their dominance relationships and the existence of female dominance are current topics of dispute.
Elsacker, Linda van +2 more
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