Mammalian adult females generally live longer than males in the wild, but it is poorly known whether sex differences in prenatal mortality occur. Douhard et al. find a higher embryonic mortality for females than for males in a wild boar population.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733425
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