Comment by Der_Einzige
4 days ago
The whole "3 year old tiger is already a mother" thing makes perfect sense when you think about relative life spans.
I don't expect my dog to wait to have puppies until it's past 18, because many dogs don't even live that long!
Scaling for lifespan they are having kids at ~14 which humans can do, but the average first time mother in the US is 27.5.
And something human beings used to do.
The average was significantly higher than 14 even in hunter gatherer societies. Women in studied hunter gather societies had their first kid around 19 with a mix of teens and early 20’s being common.
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