According to New Scientist (22-29/12/07), one thing that sets us apart from the chimps and in fact all other members of the animal kingdom except toothed whales, is the menopause.Chimps, it seems, are fertile until they die. True, their lifespan is generally shorter than that of most humans. And scientists can't really work out why. It's as though Nature has some special plan for post-reproductive women, and I believe it is our mission to be grumpy and challenging.
And there's good reason for that.
In the chimp world, 'male chimps tend to prefer mating with older females.... one wild chimp called Auntie Rose was fertile until she died at 63, and males were still fighting over her.'
A big smiley to whoever it was that used Jeremy Planet-Killer Clarkson (aka Satan's big helper)'s details to defraud him out of money, even if it was only five hundred notes.
2 comments:
The Clarkson one is gold!
Print your details in THE SUN and expect no come back.....
Hehehe!
They gave his money to charity as well. That must have stuck in his craw!
I know! Magic:))
Although what would have been EVEN better would have been some kind of environmental group :)
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