Social status, not size, determines reproductive success for female mountain gorillas

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 13:20 in Biology & Nature

Dominance rank among female mountain gorillas is not related to body size but does increase their reproductive output according to research publishing June 3, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, led by Edward Wright from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, and colleagues.

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