{"id":1689,"date":"2026-07-23T22:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/when-mothers-make-the-winners-how-alpha-female-lineages-dominate-hyena-clans\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:50:02","slug":"when-mothers-make-the-winners-how-alpha-female-lineages-dominate-hyena-clans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/when-mothers-make-the-winners-how-alpha-female-lineages-dominate-hyena-clans\/","title":{"rendered":"When mothers make the winners: How alpha female lineages dominate hyena clans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mammals, males are usually stronger and more competitive than females. Males also show greater inequality in reproductive success\u2014the number of offspring they produce\u2014than females. In spotted hyenas, the opposite is true: Reproductive inequality is greater among females than males. The reason? Female spotted hyenas pass on their social rank and the associated privileges, such as priority access to food, to their offspring, whereas males do not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-mothers-winners-alpha-female-lineages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org &#8211; latest science and technology news stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mammals, males are usually stronger and more competitive than females. Males also show greater inequality in reproductive success\u2014the number of offspring they produce\u2014than females. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}