Around this time last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic gained steam around the world, the phrase “social distancing” quickly ... in both humans and in other animals. “[Animals] have evolved ...

Animals are always fighting against disease, and they don’t need a notification from the CDC to practice social distancing. It comes naturally. “When we look to animals, we see that they used ...

This means that unlike other animals, we can practice physical rather than social distancing, which lets us preserve some of the important benefits of group living while minimizing disease risk.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Abiding by global shelter-in-place orderscan be hard for social animals like us, even when we know it's a ... for a species that evolved to live with others. But while social distancing might feel ...

Until recently, the idea of "social distancing" was a foreign concept for most of us, but for animals this is nothing new. "It’s a really broadly used behavior in nature, which shows how ...