Monkey cooperation and fairness
A pair of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) show very compelling signs of cooperation and a sense of fairness, by working together to solve a problem using tools, and then sharing the reward. They also seem to understand fairness: when unequal rewards are given to one monkey and not another, the monkey receiving the lesser treat would rather go hungry than accept anything less than an equal reward. The token exchange from the latter half of the video is interesting in and of itself; I’m sure it took a lot of training. There is another example of its usage by the same experimenter here: youtube.com From the BBC documentary “Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle”, narrated by the ever brilliant Sir David Attenborough. More Information: www.bucknell.edu www.emory.edu
Tags: cooperation, fairness, Monkey
They’re more evolved than me I would have ate all the nuts.
AWWEEEEEEE THEIR SO FIN ADORABLE!!!!!!! oh my gosh.
Thank you very much for your video. I will use it for a presentation. It is really inspiring your work.
SOUBHANNALAH!
bizkit tastes like shit gimme a grape!!!
With the editing it’s hard to tell if the monkeys really did work together.
@MagneticSyncopation
Since we’re both living in the present, and we are both species that are not extinct and have therefore adapted to our respective environments thus far, neither one of us is any more “evolutionarily advanced” than the other.
Idk why I just felt like sounding like I had a stick up my ass.
A moving video about empathy in the animal kingdom
I love watching this video and do so about once a week. That Vulcan is a pistol. Thank you for posting this and I would love to see the entire documentary.
stumbled from the plains of oblivion
That’s it! I want a pet monkey!
stumbled from St. Louis, MO
How beautiful
stumbled from chicago
Hehe that monkey’s like, “Fuck you dude! Gimme a grape!!”
Give me the damn grapes.
kinda cool, they helped each other, and then performed basic arithmetic. Better than what i could do in the second grade….
and yet scientists test on these intelligent creatures.. :[
Their faces look like down syndrome faces.
cool video
stumbled from Chicago
I like capuchin monkeys even more, now that I have seen that ^^.
stumbled from the bathroom
stumbled from MARS!
that monkey was pissed
stumbled from the depths of your bowels