social animal
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Like humans, Hvaldi is a large-brained, highly social animal.
From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2023
Rather, it appears to have been a social animal that worked in packs.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023
"I just think it's really cool that such a social animal has evolved so separately from humans, and that we still seem to converge on how important social ties are."
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2022
A social animal that feels itself to be isolated from its kind begins to behave nervously and experiences unhealthy physiological responses.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015
According to this theory Homo sapiens is primarily a social animal.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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