Girl Fight

This month’s issue of Behavioral Ecology has a special section on intrasexual selection in females.  Female-female competition is indeed a hot topic, and a fascinating one!  But we might ask why it took so long, given that we’ve been studying male-male competition for so long.  Is it scientifically shocking that females compete for the best mates too, or might this be an example of gender bias in how we study animal behavior?