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Do apes/monkeys have periods?

I mean we are so closely related to them It makes me wonder, It just popped into my head and It probably wont go away till I answer it. LOL. If not how come we have periods and they don’t?

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J.J. offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 8 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Wow, good question. Ive never thought of that.

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An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (34 minutes after post)

This was taken from Yahoo Answers. If its not correct don’t blame me D=

Only humans and bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) have menstrual cycles (they get their periods because the endometrium is excreted). Other mammals have an estrous cycle (the endometrium is reabsorbed into their bodies). Giving birth is much more painful for humans than for other primates because of our walking upright. As we evolved to walk upright, our birth canal got twisted, so the baby starts off facing one direction but ends up the other way as it comes out. Most primates can give birth and simply pull the baby up to their breasts directly, but in humans the baby comes out facing the other way, so its spine might be damaged if we did that. That’s why humans generally help each other give birth.

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An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (34 minutes after post)

you should go to ask.com for that. I don’t think anyone here could answer. I’m sorry.

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An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (46 minutes after post)

Only humans and great apes menstruate (what lots of people don’t know, often they think that all mammals menstruate). All other mammals have estrous cycle, where the endometrium is reabsorbed, so menstruations don’t occur.

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231me231 offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months ago (50 minutes after post)

then how did we get a menstrual system?

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An Unknown Location | 6 months, 1 week ago (1 month, 3 weeks after post)

dot (aka julius) is a potanian

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 4 weeks ago (5 months after post)

yes they have

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