Fairer sex: Colonies of female-only vampire bats live in equal societies

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Fairer sex: Colonies of female-only vampire bats live in equal societies
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Female vampire colonies share food equally and groom each other

The scientists found that unlike in other mammal societies, the biggest and strongest bats didn’t necessarily dominate every interaction over food availability, and there was a randomness to the ranking order – no specific quality they measured gave a bat a better chance at dominance, so any adult female had an equal opportunity to rank very high or very low on a scale of dominance in the roost.

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