Mar 6, 2015
Love this Whales-Explain-The-Mystery-of-the-Menopause story in today’s The Times
In short, for those without a News UK subscription, human females, killer whales and pilot whales are the only mammals to carry on living past their *child*-bearing years...
- Older female whales lead pods of younger whales ‘through the salmon foraging grounds’ thus the ‘presence of these matriarchs ensures their children and grandchildren will live longer’
- Researchers, putting two-and-two-together and coming up with something genius, claim that ‘elderly killer whales act as ‘repositories of ecological knowledge’, guiding their families to the best hunting grounds and improving their chances of passing on their genes. The menopausal whales were also found to give more help to their sons than their daughters, possibly because the young male killer whales spread their genetic legacy wider.’
- Extrapolating from this ‘whale wisdom’… Darren Croft (#FiftySense new crush, see pic below), Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter, said the menopause could have evolved for similar reasons,‘traceable back to the days when hunter-gatherers depended on the experience and generosity of wise women’.
- This explains why we Menopausal females feel like (and I quote myself; see previous Blog post) ‘The CEO of The World’. It’s because we are.
- Special thanks to Stephanie (#FiftySense) Symonds for messaging me about this story at 8.53am.
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