Vermont Citizen Scientist<p>What women want: <a href="https://www.earth.com/news/guinea-baboons-prefer-mates-with-skills/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">earth.com/news/guinea-baboons-</span><span class="invisible">prefer-mates-with-skills/</span></a> For decades we have studied single-male–multi-female groups of primates in which males used behavioral dominance and size and strength to keep females in line. However some of us always suspected that females did not like males who dominated them physically. Now a study shows that females are looking for males with skills, i.e. good providers! <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/sociality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociality</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>primates</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/femalechoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>femalechoice</span></a></p>