Research on the Ngogo community in Uganda reveals that humans humans aren’t the only primates with long post-fertile life stage.
A team of researchers has been studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park for over twenty years. Their recent publication in the journal Science reveals that female chimpanzees in this population can experience menopause and have a postreproductive lifespan.
Prior to the study, these traits had only been found among mammals in a few DOI: 10.1126/science.add5473