{"id":8316,"date":"2020-12-23T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2020-12-23T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:48:32","slug":"warmongering-female-mongooses-lead-their-groups-into-battle-to-mate-with-the-enemy-smart-news-smithsonian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=8316","title":{"rendered":"Warmongering Female Mongooses Lead Their Groups Into Battle to Mate With the Enemy | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/warmongering-female-mongooses-lead-their-groups-battle-mate-enemy-180976265\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mongoose_warfare_1_photo_credit_dave_seager.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>New research finds females of this species engineer conflicts with rival groups to gain sexual access to males outside their group and combat inbreeding<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/warmongering-female-mongooses-lead-their-groups-battle-mate-enemy-180976265\/\">Warmongering Female Mongooses Lead Their Groups Into Battle to Mate With the Enemy | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR: females instigate fights and mate with the other team during the fight (while their side&#8217;s males are distracted).\u00a0 Good for genetic diversity, but a little underhanded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research finds females of this species engineer conflicts with rival groups&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[268,440,411,140,137],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-genetics","tag-mongooses","tag-nature","tag-paul","tag-sex","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}