Twin brothers of spotted hyenas are often attracted to the same new group when they disperse from their birth group

ScienceDaily
Dec 19, 2022, 5:43 pm92 pts
In most mammals, males disperse to a new group after reaching sexual maturity. Dispersal often entails costs and is risky. New results from spotted hyenas show that males from the same birth group -- and particularly twin brothers -- very often disperse together and choose the same group to breed. The…

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