Originally Posted by abolt300
Here's an honest question for Matt, based somewhat on CNC's question above. Will deer do like humans from the sense that if you throw 75 women in a sorority house and they are living in close proximity to each other 24/7, within 12 months most will be cycling at pretty much the same time of the month. Would the deer from different stocking dates slowly synchronize with the predominate estrous date for the majority of the native herd, in the area in which they are stocked (assuming that the stocked deer make up a non-significant minority of the overall resident doe population at time of stocking)?


Is that a real thing or just a myth?

https://flo.health/menstrual-cycle/health/period/menstrual-synchrony

In 2017, in an attempt to end the debate, Oxford University researchers tested women who used a specific app — 360 pairs of women were included. Each had a close relationship with another woman over a long period of time. The app let women track and share information about their period, so researchers merely had to analyze the data.

The researchers reviewed the past three menstrual cycles among the pairs to identify whether any alignment could be detected. The findings stated that 273 of the pairs actually diverged instead of syncing. Conversely, just 79 pairs seemed to converge. Further, women who lived together did not report an increased percentage of alignment when compared with other pairs. The researcher concluded that this showed the idea of menstrual synchrony was a myth, despite the many women who still believe in it.

Why do so many women believe that their cycles are influenced by the women around them? The Oxford team concluded that it was based on the nature of the menstrual cycle itself. The average menstrual cycle lasts about 28 days — the time between when one cycle starts and the next begins. However, not everyone’s cycle is the same length, nor do their period last the same number of days. Because of this, there’s a lot of room for overlap to occur among a group of people, which may give the impression of syncing.

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