Reduced injury risk links sociality to survival in a group-living primate
M. A. Pavez-Fox, C. M. Kimock, N. Rivera-Barreto, J. E. Negron-Del Valle, D. Phillips, A. Ruiz-Lambides, N. Snyder-Mackler, J. P. Higham, E. R. Siracusa, L. J. N. Brent
The paper investigates how sociality affects injury risk and survival in rhesus macaques, finding that social integration reduces injury risk but not mortality after injury.
bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2022Evolutionary Biology