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Macaques Give Birth More Easily Than Women: No Maternal Mortality at Birth

An international research team led by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna has used long-term demographic data from Japanese macaques - a monkey species within the family of Old World monkeys - to show that, unlike humans, there is no maternal mortality in these primates linked to childbirth.

October 7, 2024


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