Pregnant mandrill monkeys are more likely to miscarry when also nursing an infant
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Female mandrills are more likely to experience pregnancy loss when they are simultaneously nursing an infant, which may reflect a physiological trade-off between current and future offspring, according to a study by Nikolaos Smit at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, and the University of Turku, Finland, and colleagues, published in PLOS Biology.
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