New research shows that older deer prefer their company as they age.
Analysis of female wild deer on the island of Roma showed that older adults tend to lead solitary lives in their later years.
This study was led by researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Greg Albert, lead author from the Oxford Department of Biology, said:
“This ‘social aging’ appears to be caused by older people living in more isolated areas and choosing to have less interaction with other deer in these more dispersed areas. The team has applied a new method of social network analysis to a database of 46 years of more than 200,000 lifetime census observations of more than 3,500 female deer.
The findings were published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Dr Josh Firth, also lead author of the research from the University of Oxford, said:
“By tracking many people at the same time, we can understand how and why their social relationships change over time.”
The researchers said more research is needed to understand why aging deer are less social.
Source: Metro
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