Why Don’t Other Mammals Menstruate Just Like Humans?

Let’s face it, explaining the menstrual cycle scientifically is quite complicated. complicated a topic. This cycle, which seems quite easy to explain when viewed from the outside, in the mammal group In fact, it occurs in many animals.

Especially in dogs just like in humans This thought cycle does not reflect reality. So what exactly is the truth of this matter and which mammals have a menstrual cycle?

The animals we know most closely in the mammal group are cats and dogs. We have seen dogs bleeding for a period of time at certain times, but this does not mean that they are on their period.

Although we think that the menstrual cycle in dogs is similar to that of humans, the real cause of bleeding in dogs is when they go into heat. rupture of capillaries in the vaginal walls. So, there is no such thing as menstruation.

Actually, yes, both cats and dogs menstruate. However, this process does not work exactly like we do; they menstrual cycle, proceeding more ‘secretly’. Because this process does not happen from outside, like in humans, It works from the inside. Dogs die every 6 months, cats are just like us. monthly piece sees.

This is where the distinction begins, the reason why many of us think other mammals do not menstruate is because they do not bleed externally like we do. Of course here chimpanzees We need to keep them separate because they are just like us. open They menstruate. Also in the mammalian group; orangutans, gorillas and baboons too menstruates openly.

Additionally, according to observations made on baboons in Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 1985; their normal time in the treetops before menstruation 2 times more they spent time and 15% more They were fed. It sounds familiar.

It may come as a surprise to some of you, but bats are among the animals that have open menstruation.

in the journal Biology of Reproduction According to an article published in 2020, menstrual bleeding is observed at least three bat species there is. The black holler bat molossus ater and the wild fulvous fruit bat rousettus leschenaultii are the ones that show the most human-like features.

Previously, we made a content about why humans do not enter into a mating period like other creatures:

It would not be a lie to say that it did not surprise us that bats also have open menstruation.

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