Female emancipation in a male dominant, sexually dimorphic primate under natural conditions.

ABSTRACT: In most group-living animals, a dominance hierarchy reduces the costs of competition for limited resources. Dominance ranks may reflect prior attributes, such as body size, related to fighting ability or reflect the history of self-reinforcing effects of winning and losing a conflict (the winner-loser effect), or both. As to prior attributes, in sexually dimorphic species, where males are larger than females, males are assumed to be dominant over females. As to the winner-loser effect, the computational model DomWorld has shown that despite the female's lower initial fighting ability, females achieve some degree of dominance of females over males. In the model, this degree of female dominance increases with the proportion of males in a group. This increase was supposed to emerge from the h

SUBMITTER: Izar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8055024 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature