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IMAGE: Social grooming plays an important role in vervet monkey society, helping concrete social bonds and increase an animal s chances of reproduction. However, anthropologist Brandi Wren s research reveals that monkeys suffering. view more
Credit: Purdue University photo/Brandi Wren
Brandi Wren was studying social distancing and infections before masking tape marks appeared on the grocery store floor and plastic barriers went up in the post office.
Wren, a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, spent a year studying wild vervet monkey troops in South Africa, tracking both their social grooming behavior and their parasite load. Her results, some of which were published Wednesday (April 21) in
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