I know… what a stupid question!
A friend and I were talking this morning about monkeys ‘picking fleas’ off one another, the shared grooming thing, and she casually said they might be eating the salt off one nother from sweat, which got me to wondering. Do they sweat like humans, all over, or are they more like dogs?
No real reason to ask, just curious!
I’m going to guess that, being all from the same tree, they sweat. Although, buried in hair, don’t know how useful it is.
I’ve never noticed other animals sweating, except for horses.
Dogs do sweat, on the pads of their feet. I show dogs, and it is common to see little sweaty paw prints on the black rubber matting when they have been standing in one position.
You don’t see monkeys and apes panting, either, so that’s another sigh of sweating, to me!
Humans are much better at sweating than other apes, but other apes apparently do sweat, particularly around the armpits:
Not only do they sweat but they don’t wash.
The book mentions apes having 2 kinds of sweat glands like us as well. Gorillas are supposed to smell kind of “rubbery” when they get nervous, presumably due to secretions from their apocrine sweat glands.
This is all really interesting! I knew I could count on the Dopers for answers!
Do the two smell different?