Interestingly, my dogs social distance when one of them gets sprayed by a skunk.
at first I was like, duh... But then it dawned on me. Duh me!!
Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite
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#12Interestingly, my dogs social distance when one of them gets sprayed by a skunk.
Yeah I also avoid anything that smells foul. Not very interesting.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has been part of the literature since the early 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+distanc... It just wasn't a widely-known term because we didn't have much need for it.
We watched the old movie "Outbreak" at the start of Covid, and was surprised that the term "social distancing" is used in that movie to describe mitigations we should use during the pandemic. That movie is from 1995.
Fun movie to watch at the start of the pandemic. "Contagion" is almost crazy prescient too
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#15smarter than humans:)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
We watched the old movie "Outbreak" at the start of Covid, and was surprised that the term "social distancing" is used in that movie to describe mitigations we should use during the pandemic. That movie is from 1995.
Fun movie to watch at the start of the pandemic. "Contagion" is almost crazy prescient too
I found Outbreak a pretty poor movie and hard to sit through after watching Contagion first.
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#17Wondering if the social distancing reduced the spread of virus in the bee colonies, why so many collapsed because of the virus?
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#18Wondering if the social distancing reduced the spread of virus in the bee colonies, why so many collapsed because of the virus?
1: varroa is a parasitic mite, not a virus
2: honeybees live in a hive - no amount of "social distancing" can fix the hive being infested with mites
3: CCD is multifactorial, and things like lower genetic diversity, neonicotinoid pesticides, and long-range transportation/mixing of bee hives and regional populations also play a role.
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#19so the honeycomb was mostly empty ? if there are 6 empty cells around each full cell, that would be the minimum extra distancing they could do
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has been part of the literature since the early 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+distanc... It just wasn't a widely-known term because we didn't have much need for it.
Cheers mate. Do you have an actual cite rather than a Google assertion?
To pick from one of the random sources that went into creating that graph:
> at least once, his symptoms were interpreted as a social distancing mechanism. [0]
The term has been in use for a _very_ long time. You'll also find it in editions of the Oxford dictionary from the 80s.
[0] Diseases of the Nervous System. Volume 36, Issues 1-6. (1975). Page 73.