# Are humans the only animals that menstruate?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-humans-the-only-animals-that-menstruate/472120
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 10, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-humans-the-only-animals-that-menstruate/472120 "2008-11-10T23:45:01Z")
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### Author: ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-humans-the-only-animals-that-menstruate/472120/21 "2008-11-12T00:41:46Z")

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> [@KarlGrenze](#):
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> “Could you imagine if women just became completely immobile if you touch them and they’re ‘in heat’?”

I know some guys who would be arrested, and rightly so. :rolleyes:

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### Author: ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-humans-the-only-animals-that-menstruate/472120/22 "2008-11-12T00:42:35Z")

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> [@PopeJewish](#):
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> you’ve never been to Japan 😉
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> seriously though, the women here aren’t THAT bad, though some of them do exhibit Dead Fish Syndrome 😃

You mean “the starfish?”

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