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February 11, 2021 at 9:14am
If animals could talk, they could tell us how social distancing has long helped them stop the spread of highly contagious and deadly diseases.
FIU Institute of Environment marine scientist Mark Butler and University of Florida researcher Donald C. Behringer recently examined the parallels between social distancing in the wild and social distancing among people during the current pandemic. They found many animals who tend to live close together including chimpanzees, bees, finches and even certain species of fish have evolved to use social distancing strategies.
But there’s one species, they say, that may be the ultimate social distancing champion.