Tag: Chimps
Surprisingly long-lived wild female chimps go through menopause
Female chimps living in an East African forest experience menopause and then survive years, even decades, after becoming biologically unable to reproduce.
The apes are the first known examples of wild, nonhuman primates to go through the fertility-squelching hormonal changes and live well beyond their reproductive years.
The finding raises new questions about how menopause evolved, UCLA evolutionary anthropologist Brian Wood and colleagues conclude in the Oct. 27 Science.
Until now, females who experience menopause and keep living for
As Weather Threats Loom, Even Chimps Learn to Shelter in Place
When Michelle Reininger went to bed on Thursday, June 15, she wasn’t worried about the weather. The last time she checked, the forecast had called for scattered showers. But in the middle of the night, an emergency alert blared on her phone: a severe thunderstorm warning. Winds were expected to reach 80 miles per hour. People should take cover in their homes. “I thought, Is this a joke?” she recalled.
Ten minutes later, she lost power as the storm tore