The Powerful Sex: Females and Animal Societies
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behaviour and Emotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 30345
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evolution of human behaviour; primates; play; aggression; post-conflict management; social behaviour
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: social behavior; play haviour; intraspecific communication; dogs; primate species; Nonverbal communication in Homo sapiens
Interests: horse social behaviour; stress-related behaviour in horses; human-horse relationship; emotional intelligence in horses; play behaviour; facial mimicry
2. Natural History Museum, University of Pisa, Via Roma 79, 56011 Calci, PI, Italy
Interests: intra- and inter-species communication; social behaviour; animal cognition; animal awareness; multimodal communication; conflict management; sexual behaviour; emotional contagion; motor resonance; human nonverbal communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For a long time, most of the research in the fields of behavioral ecology and sociobiology has been pointed at the leading roles of males as the main catalysts at the bases of social dynamics. In this Special Issue, we aim to unveil the underground power of females influencing life history trajectories of many animal taxa. Parental investment, mother–infant caring, female mate choice, female leverage, formal and “out-of-sight” dominance, and female coalition and support are the pillars at the basis of the evolution of complex societies. Scholars working on a huge variety of species, encompassing invertebrates and vertebrates, will be recruited to face all the issues proposed above to explore the “powerful role of females” in an adaptive and evolutionary standpoint.
Dr. Giada Cordoni
Ms. Veronica Maglieri
Ms. Chiara Scopa
Dr. Elisabetta Palagi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- behavioral ecology
- sociobiology
- ethology
- female mate selection
- female parental efforts
- female social challenges
