social animal
Example Sentences
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"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
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
But for any social animal, keeping one’s distance comes with a cost.
From Scientific American • Feb. 21, 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
According to this theory Homo sapiens is primarily a social animal.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
