Even apes have 'midlife crises,' study finds

 
By MALCOLM RITTER | Published: November 20, 2012   

— Chimpanzees going through a midlife crisis? It sounds like a setup for a joke.

But there it is, in the title of a report published Monday in a scientific journal: “Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes.”

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So what do these apes do? Buy red Ferraris? Leave their mates for some cute young bonobos?

Uh, no.

“I believe no ape has ever purchased a sports car,” said Andrew Oswald, an...
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