Mandrill societies seem to be quite different from the baboon societies, to which they have been compared to date. Mature, breeding-age males were not resident members of hordes, but entered at the onset of seasonal cycles in the females (as deduced by the presence of sexual tumescence) and...
We first predict sex- and age-differentiated susceptibility and responses to Plasmodium infections. The most common pattern is a greater susceptibility in males compared to females (in humans: (Pathak et al., 2012), but see: (Goselle et al., 2009)) and in young animals (in gorillas: (...