Rise of the Kindness of the Apes
Caesar and his fellow simians in the blockbuster film may have had a few canines to grind, but new research reveals that chimpanzees are more interested in sharing a meal than starting a revolution. A paper released this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Victoria Horner, J. Devyn Carter, Malini Suchak, and Frans de Waal of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, is the first to document what the researchers call “spontaneous prosocial choice by chimpanzees,” a species that, until now, was thought to be “indifferent to the welfare” of others.
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