In many social contexts, female and male hyaenas can rely on equal social support and are equally likely to win. But there is one exception: when natives interact with immigrant clan members. "Hyaena society is highly nepotistic and social support is primarily given to kin. Native clan members...
“We are witnessing a transition where consent wasn’t spoken about in the mainstream perhaps a decade ago, so as a society we are catching up with learning about consent,” Munro says. “For many, nuances in consent may be deeply misunderstood because we are living within an infrastructure ...
Or perhaps this is more acutely felt by astronomers, because really, how is studying a handful of stars in the Universe and learning about their motions useful for anyone in their everyday lives, when 815 million are starving and 1.6 billion lack an adequate home to live in? These questions...
But astronomers’ trials aren’t all mischievous moths (they find their way into telescopes quite frequently) and the occasional scorpion (observatories are often found in deserts, due to their remoteness and weather conditions). Levesque writes about the women that came in between Leavitt’s caree...
The second season ofAmerican Crimewas originally going to focus on a female rape victim, but research pointed the writers in a different direction, said Sonya Hoffman, who wrote the third episode of the season. “In having multiple conversations, it was very clear that there are so many sexua...
how many pairs of rabbits can a single pair of rabbits produce in one year? this thought experiment dictates that the female rabbits always give birth to pairs, and each pair consists of one male and one female [source: ghose ]. think about it: two newborn rabbits are placed in an ...
respondent said: "We are often forbidden (from) talking about the true impacts of, say, a threatening process […] especially if the government is doing little to mitigate the threat […] In this way the public often remains 'in the dark' about the true state and trends of many species...
Amateur astronomers share information over the internet. Surveys and experiments can be done online. Instructions for scientific experiments can be found on the internet (e.g. http://www.brightscience.com), small computers are commercially available that can be equipped with different probes to ...
“Men build identities based on this external thing, and when that external thing no longer is strong or it shifts or it’s not the same anymore, then we are left kind of hanging.” In lieu of connecting with each other based on who they are, many men jump to the (assumed) shared ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Males decide how much effort they put into courtship and which females to court based on how many others they have recently encountered and how attractive they were, according to a new study into the mating tactics of tropical fish.