High-born hyena sons benefit their entire life

High-ranking mothers provide their sons with a privileged upbringing and this increases their son's success after leaving home. This was now demonstrated for the first time in a social mammal, the spotted hyena, by a research team lead by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW). The results are presented in this week's issue of the scientific journal 'Nature Communications'...

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