Touch-screen-guided task reveals a prosocial choice tendency by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Humans help others even without direct benefit for themselves. However, the nature of altruistic (i.e., only the other benefits) and prosocial (i.e., self and other both benefit) behaviors in our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, remains controversial. To address this further, we developed a...
Main Authors: | Renata S. Mendonça, Christoph D. Dahl, Susana Carvalho, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ikuma Adachi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-07-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/5315.pdf |
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