Keeping fewer friends protects ageing monkeys from diseases | Using long-term data on rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago – known as Monkey Island, the study found that older macaques are likely to suffer less from infectious disease, mostly because of their smaller social networks.
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University of Exeter
Keeping fewer friends protects ageing monkeys from diseases
Becoming less sociable protects older monkeys from getting ill, new research shows. Many animals, including humans, are known to experience “social ageing” – reductions in their number of social connections as they get older. But
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