Yet despite how unnatural it may feel to us, social distancing is very much a part of the natural world. In addition to lobsters, animals as diverse as monkeys, fishes, insects and birds detect ...

For many humans, social distancing feels like the most unnatural thing in the world, but in other parts of the natural world, it’s the norm. When an infected animal gets too close, other animals ...

“Social distancing" does not seem to exist within many animal species. In many species, large groups of individual members band together to do almost everything. Sometimes these groups are so ...

Why have so many types of animals evolved such sophisticated behaviors in response to disease? Because social distancing helps them survive. In evolutionary terms, animals that effectively ...

But social distancing is not a novel concept in the ... However, through specialized senses animals can detect certain diseases—sometimes before visible symptoms appear—and change their ...

Social distancing when sick has become second nature to many of us in the past few years, but some sick animals appear to take a different approach. A new study of house finches led by Marissa ...

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These animals are better at social distancing than we are. For many humans, social distancing feels like the most unnatural thing in the world, but in other parts of the natural world, it’s the ...