“ After last week’s post on whether the bears can smell the menstruation (hehe, I can’t get over that quote), I was inundated with questions and tips for papers. People asked if menstruation attracted sharks (answer: no one has tested it, right now shark attacks are 9.2:1 male:female, but that’s probably due to differences in being in the right place at the right time, rather than being on your period. But I think I need to dangle some bloody tampons in shark infested waters…for science), if dogs were attracted to the smell of menstruation (I’ve been looking and looking for studies, but apparently that hasn’t been done either), all sorts of things. But the vast majority of these studies…haven’t been done. From all the stories I’ve heard of animals being attracted to menstrual blood, you’d have thought every female Homo sapiens on the planet would be ripped apart by wolves the instant she started menstruating. But we’re all still HERE. So I have to think that, until there are studies proving otherwise, most other mammals, and hopefully sharks, don’t really care if you’re seeping a little bit of endometrium from your nether regions. But there IS one species, apparently that DOES care. The brown tree snake.
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