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Homework Help! Anonymous
Can anyone of /an/ tell me some animals where gender roles are reversed? Where the women are the ones on top, and the men are the babysitters and whatever else...

I guess, like Hyenas and seahorses maybe?
>> Anonymous
it appears that you have confused /an/ with GOOGLE
>> Anonymous
Male penguins raise the young. Female lions hunt, etc. Males hunting and females raising the young isn't really the rule in animals. It's usually either one does everything, both do a bit of everything, or nobody does anything.

Back when this was /n/ there was no shortage of people willing to type page long reports to simple questions like this. Are any of you fools still around?
>> Anonymous
Adelie penguins, the male guards the nest after the female lays the egg. She goes off to feed, Dad never leaves, not even to eat.

Many male fish guard egg nests and fry, like Bass, Sunfish,Bowfin.

Male swans and Canadian geese guard the eggs in the nest, but both parent raise babies.
>> Anonymous
Males seahorses are actually the ones who carry babies before birth.
>> Anonymous
>>65223
Even if the female lions hunt the male lion is still pretty manly with his harem of ladies XD
>> Anonymous
>>65232
depends on the individual pride. Sometimes the male has power over all the females, but if he acts like too much of a wimpy dick they can kick him out.

>>65219
Hyenas have a heirarchy, and the lowest ranking female is still higher than the highest ranking male. Females also have more testosterone than males (and more estrogen, which is why they're still considered 'female').

Seahorses are completely different. They do not have any type of cultural or instincual social status because they are basically solitary except for mating, and the male having a pouch of fertilized eggs does not necessarily mean he is lower in status or becomes submissive.
>> Anonymous
The male Ostrich takes care of the eggs, and later of the hatched chicks. While the mom wanders off, never to look back.

In some primate species the females are the bosses and rank higher than the male.
Like among the Katta Lemurs and Bonobo Apes for example.
>> Anonymous
the modern liberal homosapien, truly a grotesque caricature of proper human order
>> Anonymous
For an extreme example, the kiwi birds lay so huge eggs that the female is completely out of it for a couple of days, so the male keeps the egg warm during that time.

Among birds, it's actually a bit rare for the male to take off and leave the female to tend to the eggs and nestlings; being as the eggs need to be sat on and guarded, it's generally a more effective strategy for one parent to sit on the eggs while the other goes hunting for food. Feeding the young is also usually a job for both parents.

For some species of birds, the male sits on the eggs while the female finds food for him. Guess it helps the female recoup some of the calcium she's lost producing eggs or something.
>> Anonymous
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Bonobos are severely creepy looking... It looks like a hairy, flexible man, with a small monkey head attached D:
>> Anonymous
Leave my sight you motherless gnoll!
>> Anonymous
>>65340
Genetically they are our closest relative in nature. Even closer than the chimp.
>> Anonymous
>>65244
Also, the natural human order is that all males are either dead or crippled by the age of 30. That sounds like fun.

The only real gender role reversal would be if males gave birth and suckled the young. Everything else is just variation.
>> Anonymous
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_10_155/ai_54153078
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Most lemur species are female-dominant. In ringtails, the females even wade into "stinkfight" battles against females from rival troops with their babies on their backs.