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Mother-daughter bonds in red deer tied to survival and more surviving calves
- February 19, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Strong social networking plays an important role in human relationships. New research on female red deer shows that those bonds are also crucial for their reproductive success and survival. The study, which looked at more than 40 years of data for free-ranging adult female red deer on the Isle of Rum in Scotland, was recently published in Royal Society Open Science.
Originally published at Phys.org