Sunday 6 January 2013

Bonobos Share Food With Strangers in Exchange for Friendship

According to a research, Bonobos value social networking so much, they share food with a stranger before they do with an acquaintance. In a series of experiments, Jingzhi Tan and Brian Hare of Duke University found that bonobos would voluntarily forego their food and offer it to a stranger in exchange for social interaction. The authors found that the bonobos' behavior was at least partially driven by unselfish motivations, since the animals helped ...

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