Researchers have found that for an endangered lemur known as the Milne-Edwards' sifaka, females are the safer sex in old age. After observing these animals for more than two decades in the wild in Madagascar, Patricia Wright of Stony Brook University and her team had a hunch that females were living longer than their male counterparts. Females tend to outlive males in many animals, including humans. But in the Milne-Edwards' sifaka - a rainforest-dweller ...Sunday, 3 March 2013
Female Lemurs Outlive Males
Researchers have found that for an endangered lemur known as the Milne-Edwards' sifaka, females are the safer sex in old age. After observing these animals for more than two decades in the wild in Madagascar, Patricia Wright of Stony Brook University and her team had a hunch that females were living longer than their male counterparts. Females tend to outlive males in many animals, including humans. But in the Milne-Edwards' sifaka - a rainforest-dweller ...
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