- “Among primates generally, females are more likely to live near their parents after they are fully grown up, while the males are more likely to move away. In the great majority of primate species, “females reside in their natal groups for life, whereas males disperse around puberty and transfer to other groups,” say primatologists Michael Pereira and Lynn Fairbanks.” Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Leonard Sax) Page 25