{"id":8776,"date":"2020-03-25T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:56","slug":"mammal-study-explains-why-females-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/25\/mammal-study-explains-why-females-live-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammal Study Explains &#8216;Why Females Live Longer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new study that looks at lifespan in wild mammals shows that females live substantially longer than males.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research finds that, on average, females live 18.6% longer than males from the same species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is much larger than the well-studied difference between men and women, which is around 8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scientists say the differences in these other mammals are due to a combination of sex-specific traits and local environmental factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In every human population, women live longer than men, so much so that nine out of 10 people who live to be 110 years old are female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This pattern, researchers say, has been consistent since the first accurate birth records became available in the 18th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the same assumption has been held about animal species, large-scale data on mammals in the wild has been lacking,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, an international team of researchers has examined age-specific mortality estimates for a widely diverse group of 101 species. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-52007780\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study that looks at lifespan in wild mammals shows that females live substantially longer than males. The research finds that, on average, females live 18.6% longer than males&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}