Male Chimps Prefer Momma Chimps.

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Science & Tech on Nov 26, 2006 at 3:11 pm

Male chimps prefer older mothers to young female chimps:

To a young male chimp there is nothing so attractive as wrinkles, sagging skin and bald patches in a female who is old enough to be his great-great-grandmother.

… and it makes perfect evolutionary sense. Here’s why:

The toll that age and a life having babies can take of a female chimp is, to the virile male, merely a sign of success that promises his offspring a genetic head start in life.

Link – via Arbroath


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