Do female monkeys menstruate and have periods??

Question

They say that monkeys are so close to us. Well do the girl monkeys have periods? I'm serious, do they?

Answer 1

all female animals do

Answer 2

kindof, they go into heat, it happens once a year, and they bleed for like a whole month.  

Answer 3

all mammals do.  

Answer 4

all female mammals ovulate and have periods. with dogs and cats they say they are in eat. i don't know what they call it for monkeys

Answer 5

yes they do they still have to clear there system of the unfertilized eggs.

dogs do too but cats don't

Good luck  

Answer 6

yes, all mammals do, except the platypus, i think, but we evolved from APES not monkeys

Answer 7

yes all animals that give birth to live young do

Answer 8

Yes, if dogs and cats get it, then so do monkeys.

Answer 9

All mammals do, from humans to guinea pigs and rhinos to cats.

Answer 10

Yes they do!

I work at a zoo, no joke.

And yes, almost all mammals have their period like humans.  Its different though, because when they have their period, they are "in heat" and that is the time in which they can get pregnant, not before a period like with humans

Answer 11

All female mammal menstruate.  Some don't have regular monthly periods but ovulate whenever a male is around.

Answer 12

why in the world are you thinking about things like this...

Answer 13

It occurs on a regular basis in reproductive age females of certain mammal species. Overt menstruation (where there is bleeding from the v****a) is found primarily in humans and close evolutionary relatives such as chimpanzees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruatio...