do any other female mammals have periods?

Answer 1

Yes and commas and exclamation points

Answer 2

All mammals have a cycle that removes the old egg and replaces it with a new one but not the same way as humans.With other animal bodies it is call going in heat or in season and they sometimes time there periods with the season of year because of survival in nature.Animals are bound by there environment and humans are not.

Answer 3

I have looked up various books and websites and these contain interesting information about menstruation, but most of the information concerns humans.

http://ajp.amjpathol.org/cgi/content/full/157/6/1759 contains information about menstruation and similar topics in various mammals. http://www.biologymad.com/master.html?, http://www.biologymad.com/Hormones/Hormones.htm and http://www.howstuffworks.com/menstruation.htm may also be helpful for you.

The following mammals show menstrual flow: elephant shrews, Old World monkeys and apes, including humans. http://www.kband.com/reports/000116.html states that overt menstruation is recorded in a few species of new world monkeys and the Malayan flying lemur, as well as cat-like marsupials (dasyures), tree shrews, elephant shrews, hedgehogs and various species of free-tailed and American leaf-nosed bats and vampires. In all of these, the loss of blood is a non-event, compared to the situation in humans. There are anecdotal reports for menstruation in the coyote and African elephant.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr2001/986666565.An.r.html states that menstruation is the shedding of the uterine lining between ovulations. Many mammals menstruate covertly, reabsorbing the uterine lining after it is shed so that bleeding is not externally visible. The mammals that menstruate are not all closely related to one another, so the site suggests that the process is probably widespread and that nearly all female mammals menstruate in some fashion.

http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Menstrual_period#Menstruation_in_other_mammals contains information with links to various scientific terms. It states that a regular menstrual cycle occurs in the great apes, varying from 29 days in orang-utans to 37 days in chimpanzees. Females of other mammal species go through episodes called "oestrus" or "heat" in each breeding season. During these times, ovulation occurs and females become receptive to mating, a fact advertised to males in some way. If no fertilization takes place, the uterus reabsorbs the endometrium: no menstrual bleeding occurs. Significant differences exist between the oestrous and the menstrual cycle.

I hope this helps. It is a bit confusing, as there is some seemingly conflicting information, but it seems that most species of mammals have not been studied and that menstruation is probably more widespread than the above information would indicate.

Answer 4

No, human beings have menstural cycles which incorporates menstration (having a era). different mammals have an Estrous cycle. some speicies could have some bloody discharge in spite of the undeniable fact that that isn't any longer the comparable as human menstration. they do no longer shed the liner of the uterus, the liner regresses and is reused particularly. specific as others pronounced, all mammels have a cycle.....however the question is era.....era is as quickly as we shed the liner of the uterus....different mammels do no longer try this. "Diestrus Diestrus is characterized by the interest of the corpus luteum that produces progesterone. contained in the absence of being pregnant the diestrus section (additionally termed pseudo-being pregnant) terminates with the regression of the corpus luteum. the liner contained in the uterus isn't shed, yet would be reorganised for the subsequent cycle."

Answer 5

Dogs

Answer 6

All mammals do, but it is called in heat.

Answer 7

Yes, kind of. They go into heat, and that can sometimes be accompanied by light vaginal bleeding. At least that's true of dogs.

Answer 8

Yeah.
I know my friends dog always had to go around wearing a diaper when it had it's period.

Answer 9

Yes!

Answer 10

i believe most of them do i think they call it being in heat. you should type tha tinto google.com cuz i no that my old cat use to be in heat and it was not kool. but i was younger so i dont remember what happens to them!