The study could have implications for humans as we substitute online interactions for real-life ones.
off of Puerto Rico’s eastern coast. Originally, macaques were only found in northern Africa and Asia, but a population of 409 rhesus macaques were moved from India to the island in 1938. There are currently more than 1,000 monkeys on the small 34 acre island, where they move around and forage for food freely, but their diet is supplemented daily with some monkey chow.
“Macaques are highly social animals and grooming is their main way of making and maintaining relationships, so grooming provides a good indicator of social interactions,” co-author Karli Watson from the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder explainedThe team analyzed DNA from the poop to measure the composition and diversity of the gut microbial community and compared it with the social connectivity of the monkeys, taking into account the age, sex, season, and...
“Engagement in social interactions was positively related to the abundance of certain gut microbes with beneficial immunological functions, and negatively related to the abundance of potentially pathogenic members of the microbiota,” co-author Philip Burnet, a professor from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said
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