A new study reveals that social alliances, not just physical strength, determine dominance in gorilla societies—with implications for humans. A female mountain gorilla holding an infant and a male ...

They're one of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. Now, a new study reveals that in gorilla communities, girls have the power. Scientists analysed four social groups of wild gorillas in ...

Power relationships between female and male gorillas: They are less strictly male-biased than previously thought. Females can overpower males despite the extreme male-biases in size and strength.

The size difference of a female (with an infant), and a male mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Power relationships between female and male gorillas: They are less strictly ...

Our understanding of female-male power relationships in animals has changed over time. Evolutionary biologists once thought that male mammals held clear-cut power over females. Later, species with ...

Our understanding of female–male power relationships in animals has changed over time. Evolutionary biologists once thought that male mammals held clear-cut power over females. Later, species with ...

Over 50 years ago, the idea that males had universal social power over females across all mammalian species was challenged by the discovery that females had power over males in spotted hyenas and some ...

Elise Huchard receives funding from CNRS and the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR). Nikos Smit does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...