Scientists find mammals have a higher incidence of cancer if they’re carnivorous, and that larger size doesn’t always mean higher susceptibility to cancer
Many of us think of cancer as occurring in humans. But animals, and not just pets, can also develop cancer as well.
Because of this, researchers focused on zoo animals, where their lives are closely monitored from their infancy to adulthood and old age, to find out how often they face cancer. Using the data gathered by the organization, the research team could “collect information on what the animals died of,” sheThe team limited their search to data points taken after 2010 because, prior to that, the record-keeping was not as good, she said. And the reason the team studied animals in zoos was because it’s hard to collect information with this much detail from species in the wild.
“You have to go to zoos where every individual is followed and you know when they die and you know what they died of,” she said.
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