Macaques give birth more easily than women: Study finds no maternal mortality at birth

Oct 07, 2024

An international research team led by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna has used long-term demographic data from Japanese macaques—a monkey species within the family of Old World monkeys—to show that unlike humans, there is no maternal mortality in these primates linked to childbirth. The results of the study were recently published in the journal PNAS.