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Grooming chain of adult female rhesus macaques
Adult female rhesus macaques on the island of Cayo Santiago, off the coast of Puerto Rico, form a grooming chain. Researchers are trying to better understand the link between the brain and social connections like grooming.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant BCS 1800558.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story Social connections influence brain structures of rhesus macaques. (Date image taken: Nov. 17, 2020; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: June 6, 2022)
Credit: Lauren Brent, University of Exeter
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