Molly Webster
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Kevin's actually known Garbo from the very beginning, since she was about 50.
But for the last 25 years, he's never seen her have a baby.
But the thing Kevin wanted to figure out was like, is Garbo an anomaly or is this something that's happening to more chimps than just her?
And to get to the bottom of that, he had to collect.
And he puts a little plastic bag on the end of the Y.
And you get this stream of pee to connect with your stick.
Now, these pee samples, they're sort of like the whale poop.
They can tell you a lot about what's happening in the bodies of individual chimps, like Garbo, for example.
So when Kevin analyzed her samples and the samples of the other older female chimps.
And I mean like they go through menopause.
It's very similar to the human experience.