{"id":219883,"date":"2025-01-20T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/in-chimpanzees-peeing-is-contagious\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:09:09","slug":"in-chimpanzees-peeing-is-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/in-chimpanzees-peeing-is-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"In chimpanzees, peeing is contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it \u201cthe first study to investigate contagious urination in animals, including humans,\u201d says Shinya Yamamoto, an animal behavior scientist at Kyoto University in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While observing a group of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes<\/em>), something caught the attention of Ena Onishi, who also studies animal behavior at Kyoto University. \u201cI noticed a tendency for individuals to urinate at the same time,\u201d she says. \u201cThis resemblance to certain human behaviors piqued my curiosity. In Japan, my home country, there is a specific term called \u2018Tsureshon,\u2019 which refers to the act of urinating in the company of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n