Exceptional endocrine profiles characterise the meerkat: sex, status, and reproductive patterns

“…Consistent with a prior report [12], dominant females had significantly greater FAM concentrations than did subordinate females (electronic supplementary material). The females' log FAM concentrations (x 2 (1) ¼ 12.97, p , 0.001),…”

“…We conducted this study on a previously described, wellhabituated, wild population of meerkats living in the Kuruman River Reserve in South Africa's Kalahari Desert [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Our focal subjects, from 12 clans (or groups), were 37 sexually mature female meerkats (11 dominant, 25 subordinate and 1 that achieved dominant status during the study and is represented in both social classes).…”