Biology
Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease
Lobsters, birds and some primates use quarantine to ward off infections
Julia C. Buck is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she runs a disease ecology laboratory. Credit: Nick Higgins
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