I know that the human female get's PMS (Post Menstrual Syndrome) and such, but do any other animals get PMS? Any other animals besides humans?
2007-08-31 10:48:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The M in PMS stands for menstruation. And only humans and great apes menstruate. Period. Other animals have their own cycles involving fertility of course, but even if they had something similar to PMS, it would at least have to carry a different name.
Even in humans, there isn't a way to directly detect PMS. Hormone levels are within normal ranges, and there has not been found any symptom linked to PMS and PMS alone. This is part of the problem with diagnosing it even in humans!
If you want to figure out if an animal is experiencing something similar and tie it down to just this one cause, I suspect that you're probably out of luck.
2007-08-31 10:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well he got the M right, but it's not POST menstrual, it's PRE menstrual.
But yes, because no other animals "Menstruate" (they can only get pregnant when "in heat cycle") they don't technically have PMS.
But I can say from personal experience a Mare (female horse) in heat is just about (if not more so, because they have hooves and a bad *** roundhouse kick) as cranky and b|tchy as a woman during PMS.
2007-08-31 18:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by nixity 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
birds,cats,dogs
2007-08-31 17:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
kittys
2007-08-31 17:53:06 · answer #4 · answered by cole33x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dogs do !!!!!!
Birds do !!!!!
2007-08-31 17:50:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋