From Snowbird, Utah, at a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
Female ring-tailed lemurs may get “masculinized” by well-timed little rises in prenatal hormones, says Christine Drea.
A researcher at Duke University in Durham, N.C., Drea has studied female spotted hyenas, which display a suite of traits typically described as masculine. Female hyenas dominate the species’ rough-and-tumble social life and even grow penislike genitalia.
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