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Animal Behavior

  • Primate grooming is about politics
  • By grooming each other they help forge alliances that help them in other situations
  • This explains why grooming time across species is correlated with the size of the social group, but not the amount of fur
  • Larger groups have, on average, greater political complexity, making alliances more important but also harder to maintain.

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