Scientists establish human mating season

Scientists are on the verge of identifying the human mating season, the preliminary report of an ongoing study has revealed.

According to leading gynaecologists based at the Human Fertility Research Programme, human beings, just like other animals, have a mating season, but this could vary from one region to another. However, the human mating season is different from the animal oestrus cycle for the obvious reason that humans are higher up the superiority chain in the animal kingdom.

"We like to think of ourselves as superior, but we are really just another bunch of animals in the jungle experiencing animal tendencies just like the rest of the beasts," Dr Reale Mate, the lead scientist in the study, said during the launch of the preliminary report.

While animals experience an oestrus cycle at specific times of the year when the female is said to be "on heat", and during which the females are sexually active, human beings are not restricted in their their sexual activity, and  can indulge at any time of the month. However, the scientists want to prove that there is a specific season when majority of  female humans conceive and that is what they are calling the mating season.

The ongoing study seeks to establish when exactly the human mating season starts based on the months when most pregnancies are recorded. The scientists suspect that contrary to public opinion which believes that mating season may be in the June - July period, the real heats start around  December to February every year.

"The Kenyan winter season (Late May to early August) does not feature anywhere on our charts because at that time, the reproductive cells are too frozen to accomplish their mission. Only the fittest make it.

"The real mating season likely starts after late September, peaking around November and December and goes up to February. The temperatures then are more conducive to give the right environment for the cells to make the reproductive journey," Dr Mate explained.

The results of the study are expected to be released  in February next year, followed by control studies to establish the validity of the claims.

In related news, women who are not currently expectant are crying foul after being left out of the prevailing baby boom. They are now calling on the government to turn back the hands of time by a few months to enable them get pregnant, so that they can also enjoy maternity leave like their colleagues.

"I never got the memo that women had plotted to be expectant at this time. It is unfortunate that I will be left at work for three lonely months while my sisters enjoy the fruits of their wombs," a distressed female worker told our reporter.

However, once the final HRFP study has been released, clueless women who do not want to be left out during the baby production season, will find it easier to synchronize their reproductive activities with the human mating season with greater success.


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Fact or Fiction: Do women who live together menstruate together?

The claim that women who live together  have synchronised menstrual cycles has been the subject of much debate ever since it was introduced roughly 40 years ago by Martha McClintock, an American researcher. After comparing data of women who spent a lot of time together McClintock found that the gap between the menstrual onset dates decreased over one year for women who spent most of their time together. However counter- researchers have claimed that since women have persistent cycles of different lengths, their cycles can never truly synchronise. What happens is their cycles randomly phase in and out of synchrony and there is no evidence to support the synchrony claim.
The research continues.