Horns

In blue wildebeest, sexual selection affects the size of the horns of both males and females

(ORDO NEWS) — We usually think that in the wild, the most prominent secondary sexual characteristics—bright tails, tufted tufts, or spreading horns are most often owned by males who have to compete with each other for the right to mate with a female. However, after examining a collection of blue wildebeest skulls from South Africa, the researchers found that in these ungulates, the size of the horns does not depend…