Warmongering Female Mongooses Lead Their Groups Into Battle to Mate With the Enemy | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

New research finds females of this species engineer conflicts with rival groups to gain sexual access to males outside their group and combat inbreeding

Source: Warmongering Female Mongooses Lead Their Groups Into Battle to Mate With the Enemy | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

TL;DR: females instigate fights and mate with the other team during the fight (while their side’s males are distracted).  Good for genetic diversity, but a little underhanded.

 

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