Social thermoregulation as a potential mechanism linking sociality and fitness: Barbary macaques with more social partners form larger huddles

Abstract Individuals with more or stronger social bonds experience enhanced survival and reproduction in various species, though the mechanisms mediating these effects are unclear. Social thermoregulation is a common behaviour across many species which reduces cold stress exposure, body heat loss, a...

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Main Authors: Liz A. D. Campbell, Patrick J. Tkaczynski, Julia Lehmann, Mohamed Mouna, Bonaventura Majolo
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ed89facad31d416c94fcdd0a8633d526
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