How to Use social animal in a Sentence

social animal

noun
  • Sea lions are social animals and live in colonies in the wild.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Dogs are social animals and are known to miss their owners deeply.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Jalen Hurts is a more social animal.
    — Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • As social animals, our pups form deep emotional bonds and often think about us while apart.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Dogs are social animals, and most experts recommend they not be left alone for longer than four to six hours at a time.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • People are social animals, and team building is a contact sport.
    — Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Also, pigs are social animals and, therefore, more threatening; there are so many of them.
    — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Orcas are clever, social animals that can learn new behaviors from each other.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Dogs are highly social animals that thrive on companionship, which is why some owners buy their pets their own pet.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Because elk are social animals, forming large herds and seasonal harems, the bull must have had a sense of its solitude.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Wolves are extremely social animals that howl to communicate and bond with their packs, but these wolves are alone in the world.
    — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The breed enjoys being with family and is a social animal.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Horses are social animals who relate to each other and their human handlers.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Because bats are social animals that tend to roost together and form colonies, rabies spreads easily among them.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Measuring up to 20 feet long, the dolphins are social animals that feed on a variety of fish and squid.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Belugas are social animals that hunt and travel together in pods.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Pilot whales, which are highly social animals, often have close relationships with their pods throughout their lives.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Sharks aren’t known to be particularly social animals, and are more often seen traveling solo than in a group.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Researchers think this new behavior is a fad, like many others by the highly intelligent and social animals.
    — Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Human beings are social animals, and meetings in person matter.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Pigs are known for being highly intelligent and social animals who thrive in a group environment.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • For example, humans are, by design, social animals.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
  • African elephants are highly social animals, living in matriarchal herds led by a female elder.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • The elephants are highly social animals and live in multigenerational family groups in the wild.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Canines are social animals who enjoy your company and feel secure and close to you, so following you around just comes naturally to them.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • In the summer, these social animals typically migrate to shallower coastal waters to give birth, feed, shed their dead skin and socialize.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • To realize this potential, human beings need to be freed, not as economic animals, but as social animals.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Getting in Sync Humans, like other social animals, have a propensity to sync their behaviors.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Many animals play to explore the physics of their environment, and social animals also play to understand one another.
    — Kelly Clancy, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
  • The highly social animals pass down hunting strategies from generation to generation, meaning each pod has a unique approach.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024

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