Dynamics of Intersexual Dominance and Adult Sex- Ratio in Wild Vervet Monkeys.

ABSTRACT: Intersexual dominance relations are important for female mammals, because of their consequences for accessing food and for the degree of sexual control females experience from males. Female mammals are usually considered to rank below males in the dominance hierarchy, because of their typical physical inferiority. Yet, in some groups or species, females are nonetheless dominant over some males (partial female dominance). Intersexual dominance, therefore, also depends on traits other than sexual dimorphism, such as social support, social exchange, group adult sex-ratio, and the widespread self-reinforcing effects of winning and losing fights, the "winner-loser effect." The importance of sex-ratio and the winner-loser effect remains poorly understood. A theoretical model, DomWorld, predicts

SUBMITTER: Hemelrijk CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7240123 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature