Romeo and Juliet roles for banded mongooses

Friday, July 3, 2015 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

Female banded mongooses risk their lives to mate with rivals during pack 'warfare' and both males and females have also learned to discriminate between relatives and non-relatives to avoid inbreeding even when mating within their own social group.

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