Christopher X J. Jensen
Professor, Pratt Institute

New research suggests that chimpanzees understand that cooperation produces benefits

Posted 11 Oct 2013 / 0

WMAC Northeast Public RadioAcademic Minute: Dr. Alicia Melis, University of Warwick – Cooperation and Chimpanzees

Chimps’ ability to take the perspective of others has been questioned, but this set of experiments seems to show that chimps can mentally put themselves in the place of a comrade, imagining what that comrade should do and then teaching that comrade to complete that task.

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