social animal
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Like humans, Hvaldi is a large-brained, highly social animal.
From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2023
Many writers are deskbound anchorites; Kurkov is a compulsively social animal with a deep bench of illustrious friends.
From New York Times • May 24, 2022
We’ve been a social animal whose survival has depended upon human co-operation for hundreds of thousands of years.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2019
The artist’s hair is abundant, his mustache turned up jauntily, his eyes full of the spirited scrutiny and impatience of a consummate social animal.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016
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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