Insights into Intraspecies Variation in Primate Prosocial Behavior: Capuchins (Cebus apella) Fail to Show Prosociality on a Touchscreen Task

Over the past decade, many researchers have used food donation tasks to test whether nonhuman primates show human-like patterns of prosocial behavior in experimental settings. Although these tasks are elegant in their simplicity, performance within and across species is difficult to explain under a...

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Main Authors: Lindsey A. Drayton, Laurie R. Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-04-01
Series:Behavioral Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/4/2/87