Alpha males are rare among our fellow primates: scientists

During the research, it showed that for most primates, including lemurs, the females dominated the males. — Pixabay

New research has contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives.

“For a long time we have had a completely binary view of this issue. We thought that a species was either dominated by males or females – and that this was a fixed trait,” said Elise Huchard, a primatologist at the University of Montpellier in France.