social animal
Example Sentences
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He was a social animal, not a gym monkey.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022
But for any social animal, keeping one’s distance comes with a cost.
From Scientific American • Feb. 21, 2022
I was really relieved because I’m not a social animal, and in the course of creating this show I had to meet hundreds of people.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020
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
