Females protect offspring from infanticide by forcing males to compete through sperm

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Previous research has shown that infanticide by males is widespread in many mammal species, but most commonly occurs in those species where females live in social groups dominated by one or a few males.

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