X-Message-Number: 32696
Subject: Social Bonds Enhance Longevity
From: David Stodolsky <>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:00:11 +0200

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701131157.htm

Female baboons that maintain closer ties with other members of their
troop live substantially longer than do those whose social bonds are
less stable, a recent study has found.


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/tlf-bsr111203.php

These experiments have demonstrated for the first time that animals
other than humans classify members of their community simultaneously
according to both individual attributes and membership of a societal
group.


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