How to Use social animal in a Sentence

social animal

noun
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  • Sea lions are social animals and live in colonies in the wild.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The point of the video series is people are social animals.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • People are social animals, and team building is a contact sport.
    — Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Because bats are social animals that tend to roost together and form colonies, rabies spreads easily among them.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Orcas are clever, social animals that can learn new behaviors from each other.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Sharks aren’t known to be particularly social animals, and are more often seen traveling solo than in a group.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Researchers think this new behavior is a fad, like many others by the highly intelligent and social animals.
    — Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Humans are deeply social animals that thrive in collectives.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • Getting in Sync Humans, like other social animals, have a propensity to sync their behaviors.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Belugas are social animals that hunt and travel together in pods.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Pilot whales, which are highly social animals, often have close relationships with their pods throughout their lives.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Humans have evolved as social animals, probably developing the ability to understand and empathize with each other in the process.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
  • Human beings are social animals, and meetings in person matter.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • To realize this potential, human beings need to be freed, not as economic animals, but as social animals.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The highly social animals pass down hunting strategies from generation to generation, meaning each pod has a unique approach.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • The highly social animals spend most of their time lying together in the wild, so rescuers wanted to reproduce those conditions as much as possible by providing human companions for the pup to snuggle, Goertz added.
    — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But rats are also cognitively advanced social animals, and questions about how to effectively control them can raise tricky ethical questions.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Other social animals also use similar cues to recognize one another.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2023
  • As social animals, however, those same scientists do much of their work together—brainstorming hypotheses, puzzling over problems and fine-tuning experimental designs.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • Miscommunication or the lack of accurate information affects other highly social animals, including humans, as well.
    — Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023

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