Who you calling a distorter? (Image: Friedrich von Horsten/Alamy)
EAT red meat if you want a boy baby, fish and vegetables for a girl… Myths about how women can influence the sex of their baby abound, but for African buffalo, such effects are more science than fiction, and the main driver is the pitter-patter of tiny raindrops.
During wet periods, about 55 per cent of conceptions are male, but this falls to 45 per cent in dry seasons, says Pim van Hooft of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He analysed data from more than 3000 buffalo culled over 20…
