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jrknothead
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26 Aug 2008, 12:47 am

Monkeys reward friends and relatives

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Monkeys were given a choice of receiving a food reward, or receiving a food reward and also having another monkey receive food.

When paired with relative or "friend" the monkeys primarily went for the double reward, known as the "prosocial" choice, researchers led by Frans de Waal report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



Interesting study...



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26 Aug 2008, 2:14 am

Monkeys, is there anything they can't do?



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26 Aug 2008, 6:40 am

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle... or nephew... or somthin'...


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26 Aug 2008, 3:22 pm

Cool, thanks for the link. :D