Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
In Brief Despite how unnatural social distancing may feel to people, it is very much a part of the natural world, practiced by mammals, fishes, insects and birds. Social animals stay apart, changing behaviors such as grooming to stop the spread of diseases that could kill them.
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In Brief Despite how unnatural social distancing may feel to people, it is very much a part of the natural world, practiced by mammals, fishes, insects and birds. Social animals stay apart, changing behaviors such as grooming to stop the spread of diseases that could kill them.
Continue Reading . . . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/animals-use-social-distancing-to-avoid-disease/