The female must fight against him or soften him by sex, especially among mammals practicing an agressive competition between males. But, on the contrary, he is often a threat to the little ones. It is customary to say that the male protects the herd.
In this case, the strongest have an advantage, which is the case of males in species where they are bigger. Promiscuity, lack of sensory stimulation, inability to move, can induce aggressive behaviors, in animals as in humans, males or females. Things can be different, however, when animals are in a stressful situation, such as living in a cage. This may be the case with some of our closest primate cousins, but things seem less obvious about other species such as, for example, deer, cattle, elephants, wolves or cats…ĭoes the male restrict the space of the females, does he control their actions, as does a man who has a harem of wives? Is he violent toward the females as he is toward other males? Can we talk about “harem” if females sometimes mate with other males, as we often see in these groups? A lion with his harem, or lionesses with their reproducer? Photo: Brian Scottīy observing, for example, a pack of lionesses with a lion, one could also change perspective and say that it is a group of lionesses who share a male, who may be pampered because he is unique, but he does not dominate them.
But, by this expression: “dominant male”, one could understand that he also dominates the females. The commentators deduce that this is the “dominant male” and his “harem”. Sometimes there is only one male, or only one of the males can mate with the females. In groups of animals where agressive competition between males exists, it is observed that there are, therefore, groups with a larger number of females than males. Added to this bias is the need to make the image commercially attractive. Finally, animal documentaries tell more about our prejudices and our narcissistic aspirations, than about the animals themselves. The animal social organization is often described by projection of our ways of life. This is particularly notable in the study of the animal world, history and archeology. Sexist prejudices also influence the way in which objects of study are perceived when they relate to living beings. I counted the points in front of him, and he had to bow to the evidence, which made him very angry. He believed it so much, that one day he made a miscalculation by counting my points on a copy: he had counted 8 instead of 14 / 20. He told us that women were rather good at litterature, and men at mathematics.
When I was in high school, I had a particularly sexist math teacher. In all scientific fields, prejudices can affect the perception of reality.
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