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Altruistic Chimpanzees Documented For First Time In Captivity
12:24 pm in animals, primates, Science & Technology by TreeHugger
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For a long time altruistic behavior in chimpanzees in the wild has been documented--unrelated chimps helping one another without apparent expectation of reward--but documentation in a more controlled environment had been lacking, until now. A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (coming to us via Read the full story on TreeHugger
