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The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced us to expressions such as 'lockdown', 'isolation' and 'social distancing', which became part of social conduct all.
The Covid-19 epidemic gave birth to terms like lockdown, isolation, and social distance, which have since become commonplace in social situations all throughout the world. Bats, it appears, maintain social distance as well, which may aid in the prevention of infectious illnesses in their colonies.
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University show that sick bats, like sick humans, prefer to stay away from their groups, most likely as a means of rehabilitation and potentially also to protect others, in a new study published in Annals of the New York Academy of Science. Dr. Kelsey Moreno, a postdoctoral researcher and Ph.D. candidate Maya Weinberg worked in Yossi Yovel s lab at the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences. Prof. Yossi Yovel is the Head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience and a researcher in the School of Zoology.