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Older sparrows tend to have fewer friends as they age, as with humans.
The reason could be that there is no evolutionary pressure’ to do so.
While friendliness helps younger birds survive and breed more successfully, the same isn’t true for older birds.
The study is published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
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