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Posts filed under: chimps

Males prefer older females

November 21st, 2006, under , ,

Well, at least in the chimp world. According to the study reported at Live Science the reason why male chimps don’t have a preference for younger females is that chimp women don’t go through menopause, and don’t bother with partnerships, so they are reproductive longer. As for why the older is actually better, this is not entirely clear yet.



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