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Growing old with prides: male and female lions socialise differently with age | Department of Biology

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New research on wild lions has revealed that males and females experience vastly different changes to their social network throughout their lives, and that this may shape their survival. The study offers new insight into the emerging topic of social ageing: how individuals change their social behaviour with age, and the consequences this has for other parts of their lives. This is the first time social ageing has been investigated in wild lions and across generations and sexes at the same time. Lychee, a lioness included in the study. She was the oldest lion recorded in the Serengeti and lived to be 19 years old Image: Craig Packer Among cats, African lions (Panthera leo) are unique in the extent to which they depend on social acquaintances for many essential processes, such as hunting and rearing cubs. But until now, it was not known how individual lion’s social networks change as lions age and what this might mean for their survival. This new study, based on 30 years of data on the S

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