We know that in nature, males tend to have a physical advantage, so in groups of animals, males often have a physical advantage in obtaining food and competing for mates, so males often take the initiative. But there are exceptions to large animals, and here we exclude the well-known insects such as bee ants and take stock of the ten most female dominant animals in nature.
Pygmy
Pygmy badger is a genus of civets, long-tailed, short limbs, they mainly eat snakes, but also hunt frogs, fish, birds, rats, crabs, lizards, insects and other small mammals. Pygmy badgers generally have a population of 12-15. They are the smallest carnivores on the African continent. A pygmy herd is generally led by a female pygmy and has the sole reproductive rights within its territory.
Other females are not allowed to reproduce, but they can help raise the pygmy queen's cubs. If they are not carefully pregnant, their offspring may be killed by the queen after birth to maintain the queen's absolute control over the group.
mantis
Praying mantises are carnivorous insects that are widely distributed around the world.
Female praying mantises are larger than males, and after mating, about 5% of male mantises are eaten by females. The amazing thing is that when the male mantis is grabbed from the back by the female, the male mantis will twist his upper body and let his lower body complete mating.
Spotted hyena
Spotted hyenas have the most powerful bite force among mammals. In sub-Saharan Africa, spotted hyenas are the largest hyena species, and after killing their prey, they even eat the bones of their prey. The number of a group of spotted hyenas can even reach 100, which is dominated by the purest and strongest females of the group. Male spotted hyenas are socially ranked below cubs and belong to lower female hyenas in the group.
We tend to associate males with aggression and predatory, but in mosquitoes it's the exact opposite. Only female mosquitoes suck blood, while males feed only on the nectar of plants. The reason for this result is that females need a lot of protein to conceive eggs, and blood sucking is the most convenient way.
Mating may seem pleasant to most species, but male octopuses, like praying mantises, are at risk of being eaten. Over the course of long-term development, males have learned to keep their distance from the female's flexible eight tentacles while mating with the female.
The webbed sandpiper is a wading bird, the female is larger than the male, more beautiful in color, and can also engage in area battles and courtship. Males incubate eggs. In autumn, the female leaves the breeding ground, and then the male leads the young to move south.
This bird is active, especially good at dancing, in the lake pond, you can often see the petal webbed sandpiper dancing, like water ballet, the interest is so, can be up to 247 consecutive rotations, the dance is full of wind, dazzling, such as the fairy in the sky, breathtaking.
The eagle is a well-known bird of prey and is an unusual example of reverse dimorphism. Females are generally more than 50% larger than males.
Early research suggested that the reason eagle females were larger than males was that females needed a larger body shape to avoid male invasion. But later research suggested that eagles of different sizes created more predatory opportunities. In winter, when leaves are scarce, females can rely on their larger body shape to catch larger prey, which is very useful in winter when food is scarce. In the summer, the female needs to raise her cubs in the nest, and this is where the male can rely on his flexible body shape to travel through the lush woods and prey on more food.
The naked mole rat ( scientific name : heterocephalus glaber ) is a type of extorted rodent distributed in parts of East Africa and is currently the only species classified in the genus Naked Mole rat. It is one of only two eusocial mammals (the other is the Damalaran mole).
Similar to ants, each group of naked mole rats has a fairly fat queen and several male rats, and the rest are both male and female worker rats, and the worker rats may be inhibited by hormones in the queen's urine and lose their reproductive ability, and are specifically responsible for collecting food, keeping the queen warm, digging tunnels, etc. A litter of naked mole rats averages seventy or eighty, up to a maximum of 300, but each worker weighs only about 30 grams.
The horned wildebeest may be the strangest species of male and female reversal in nature, and it is common in ungulates for various males to chaotically and frantically pursue females, but in the horned wildebeest, it is often the females who fight for the male.
Males, on the other hand, will only choose the most powerful females to reproduce, rather than spreading their seeds as far as they can.
Killer whales are the most powerful and deadliest dolphins in the world, known as killer whales. But this is actually a misunderstanding, different groups of killer whales have different predation habits, but so far only a few attacks on keepers in aquariums have been recorded, while not in the natural environment.
It has been documented that in years of food shortages, females are more likely than males to lead groups. It has been suggested that female killer whales provide groups with environmental and ecological knowledge, and in killer whale populations, this knowledge is preserved in the memory of female killer whales for generations.