Erin Siracusa

Older monkeys still hang out, just with a smaller circle of intimates. Lauren Brent

April 6, 2023

Macaque monkeys shrink their social networks as they age – research suggests evolutionary roots of a pattern seen in elderly people, too

Erin Siracusa, University of Exeter and Noah Snyder-Mackler, Arizona State University

Many older people tend to trim their social circles and focus their social efforts on family and close friends. New research on our close primate relatives may help explain why.

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October 12, 2022

Animal friendships are surprisingly like our own

Beki Hooper, University of Exeter; Delphine De Moor, University of Exeter, and Erin Siracusa, University of Exeter

Friendships are formed all across the animal kingdom and the ways in which they resemble human ones may surprise you.

Red squirrels benefit from long-term social relationships with their neighbours — from a distance. (Shutterstock)

March 25, 2021

Red squirrels, socially distant by nature, teach us the value of good neighbours

Erin Siracusa, University of Exeter

Red squirrels are solitary by nature, but research has found that they benefit from familiarity with other squirrels.

A narwhal is spotted swimming with a group of belugas in the St. Lawrence. Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM).

November 8, 2018

A narwhal frolics with the belugas: Why interspecies adoptions happen

Erin Siracusa, University of Guelph

What can the story of a lost narwhal and his beluga family tell us about interspecies adoptions?

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Macaque monkeys shrink their social networks as they age – research suggests evolutionary roots of a pattern seen in elderly people, too

Animal friendships are surprisingly like our own

Red squirrels, socially distant by nature, teach us the value of good neighbours

A narwhal frolics with the belugas: Why interspecies adoptions happen

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