'A Moral Imperative': Scientists Say We Must Change Conservation Strategies to Save Endangered Great Apes
Following decades of hunting and habitat destruction by humans, great apes are teetering on the edge of extinction.
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Following decades of hunting and habitat destruction by humans, great apes are teetering on the edge of extinction.
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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 jo
Female humans and some whales aren't the only mammals to go through menopause. A new study finds wild chimpanzees do, too.
<p>A team of researchers studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in western Uganda’s Kibale National Park for two decades has published <a href="http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5473" target="_blank">a report in Science</a> showing that females in this population can experience menopause and postreproductive survival.</p>