Hormonal changes very similar to menopause have been found in older female chimps in a Uganda national park.

Hormonal changes very similar to menopause found in female chimpanzees

A study in Uganda has shown signs of long life and menopause in female chimpanzees.  Source: Rod Waddington, Wikimedia Commons Chimpanzee urine samples collected by Uganda’s Kibale National Park reveal that older chimpanzee females go through hormonal changes very similar to menopause in humans. This new finding, reported by Dr Langergraber and his colleagues in…