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Drivers of female power in bonobos.
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- The Amygdala and Politics.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Female Affiliation and Status in Semi-Free-Ranging Chimpanzees.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
- A lethal incident during an intergroup encounter in bonobos.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently.Science advances · 2026Article
- Where We Go From Here: Harnessing Queer Perspectives to Advance Practice in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Targeted Chromosomal Sequencing of Wild Bonobos Identifies a Genetically Distinct Subpopulation East of the Lomami River.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Great Ape Childhoods: Social and Spatial Pathways to Independence in Bonobo and Chimpanzee Infants.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Coalitional Support Regulates Resource Divisions in Men.Evolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society · 2025Article
- The evolution of male-female dominance relations in primate societies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
In mammals, female dominance over males is a rare phenomenon. However, recent findings indicate that even in species with sexual dimorphism biased towards males, females sometimes occupy high status. Here we test three main hypotheses explaining intersexual power relationships, namely the self-reinforcing effects of winning and losing conflicts, the strength of mate competition, and female coalition formation. We test these for bonobos (Pan paniscus), one of our closest living relatives, where females have high status relative to males despite male-biased size dimorphism. We compiled demographic and behavioral data of 30 years and 6 wild living communities. Our results only support predictions of the female coalition hypothesis. We found that females target males in 85% of their coalitions and that females occupy higher ranks compared to males when they form more frequent coalitions. This result indicates that female coalition formation is a behavioral tool for females to gain power over males.
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