Forming close social bonds as adults helps the primates triumph over childhood adversity and live longer, according to a new study.
The paper, published in Science Advances on Wednesday, drew on 36 years of data from nearly 200 of the Old World monkeys in the Amboseli National Park, in southern Kenya.
"It's like the saying from the King James Apocrypha, 'a faithful friend is the medicine of life,'" senior author Susan Alberts, a professor of biology and evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, said in a statement.
Adult friends help baboons conquer childhood trauma
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