Do all animals socially isolate to avoid disease?
A review exploring how different animals, from bats and lobsters to frogs, gorillas and bees, deal with the planet’s growing problem of infectious disease outbreaks has found that some appear to become less social, but not all.
For social animals, including humans, isolation may prevent the spread of disease, but it can cause other problems that may be as bad as the infection, according to the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Published by Cosmos.
