Competition between mothers starts in the womb, new study suggests
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 12:34
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Female mammals, including humans, may try to outcompete one another by producing bigger babies, ground-breaking research has suggested. A 13-year-long study, the first of its kind to use ultrasound, found that female mongooses respond to reproductive competition by producing bigger pups.