My Parasitic LifeChapter 2
I had learned that it didn’t do to take the top spot, as that put quite a target on one’s back. Sometimes it was unavoidable, such as with a lion’s pride, but that was solved by driving the male progeny away early enough before they became a challenge. By then habit kept them clear of their former home territory. It wasn’t as much a problem in some animal societies, and in matriarchal societies such as most whale pods, mastodon and bonobo, troublesome males were either pacified or exiled. It...