Sebastian Stockmaier (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Sebastian Stockmaier

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How do social interactions change in the face of illness? As humans face potential global pandemics we look to nature for examples. Close observation of another highly social animal, the vampire bat, sheds light on how interactions change -- or do not change -- as individuals become sick.

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Rachel Page, STRI

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