Saturday, March 10, 2007

The News
Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A Cooperative Task
Science Daily
— In experiments designed to deepen our understanding of how cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bonobos, a particularly sociable relative of the chimpanzee, are more successful than chimpanzees at cooperating to retrieve food, even though chimpanzees exhibit strong cooperative hunting behavior in the wild.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in Current Biology.

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