ArticleRoyal Society open science2021
Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos.
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- The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research.Animal cognition · 2024Review
- Cooperation increases bottlenose dolphins' (Tursiops truncatus) social affiliation.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Does tolerance allow bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task? A conceptual replication of HareRoyal Society open science · 2023Article
- Self-interest precludes prosocial juice provisioning in a free choice group experiment in bonobos.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Adult bonobos show no prosociality in both prosocial choice task and group service paradigm.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Chimpanzees and bonobos use social leverage in an ultimatum game.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Individual Goffin´s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) show flexible targeted helping in a tool transfer task.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Directly comparing the prosocial behaviour of our two closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, is essential to deepening our understanding of the evolution of human prosociality. We examined whether helpers of six dyads of chimpanzees and bonobos transferred tools to a conspecific. In the experiment 'Helping', transferring a tool did not benefit the helper, while in the experiment 'Cooperation', the helper only obtained a reward by transferring the correct tool. Chimpanzees did not share tools with conspecifics in either experiment, except for a mother-daughter pair, where the mother shared a tool twice in the experiment 'Helping'. By contrast, all female-female bonobo dyads sometimes transferred a tool even without benefit. When helpers received an incentive, we found consistent transfers in all female-female bonobo dyads but none in male-female dyads. Even though reaching by the bonobo receivers increased the likelihood that a transfer occurred, we found no significant species difference in whether receivers reached to obtain tools. Thus, receivers' behaviour did not explain the lack of transfers from chimpanzee helpers. This study supports the notion that bonobos might have a greater ability to understand social problems and the collaborative nature of such tasks.
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