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Social distancing to prevent disease has been around for a long time—and not just in humans. Search for: Science. ... Animals are better at social distancing than we’ll ever be.
In nature, animals are always fighting against disease. But they don’t need a notification from the CDC to know to social distance. It comes naturally.
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 to combat COVID-19 is profoundly impacting society, leaving many people wondering whether it will actually work. As disease ecologists, we know that nature has an answer. Animals ...
Other animals lose social ties with actual distance. But perhaps the biggest human advantage is the ability to develop sophisticated nonbehavioral tools, such as vaccines, that prevent disease ...
Some highly social animals, like banded mongooses, do not avoid group members even when they are visibly sick; the evolutionary costs of social distancing from their relatives may simply be too high.
It’s a bizarre thing to think about: Just over a year ago, no one had even heard of social distancing. Now, one COVID-19 pandemic later, it’s become a way of life. We stay 6 feet apart. We ...
Loneliness "Social Distancing" and the Animal World We could learn a lot about solitude from some other animals. Posted April 12, 2020 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch ...
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 uncovered a ...
New research casts a light on how other species shift social interactions, and practice social distancing in the presence of a contagious pathogen. Animals from ants to bats to lobsters employ a ...