
Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Importance of Sisterhoods
Alan Alda: In almost all primates, females inhabit their own hierarchy. Lucy Cook says research in species is different as songbirds and lions have busted another myth that females are mostly monogamous. The female sisterhood exists among chimps, right? Friends, Deval was telling us about the idea that there's not only an alpha male,. There's also an alpha female in every group. And she has the sisterhood of the other females.
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