The bonobos (Bread paniscus) or dwarf chimpanzees are one of two species that compose the genre of the chimpanzees. Since well we know, they are our most nearby relatives, and they share a multitude of features similar to ours. The primatología has studied them thoroughly, and the conclusion of a recent study has been interesting with regard to his social behavior.
Brian Hare of the University Duke and Suzy Kwetuenda of Lola Ya Bonobo, a center of care of bonobos orphans in the Republic Democráctica of the Congo have studied the distributive behavior of the bonobos, in an experiment that turns out to be revealing regarding the same one and that reveals to the altruistic character of the same one.
I will do and Kwetuenda put a hungry bonobo in a quarter with meal. To a side of this quarter there was an empty room, while to another side there was another alone bonobo and without meal, and the simian could see towards both quarters across a glass. Two investigators studied the behavior and the decisions of the bonobo with meal, to see if he preferred to be an egoist and eat his meal alone, or to distribute it with his partner of the room of nearby.
Of surprising form, the chimpanzee opened the door and shared his food with his partner, in a behavior that the investigators consider to be an altruistic attitude of his part.
The investigation plans testear the behavior to major scale and inside a social context, but at least it is known that at individual level these animals have a tendency to leave the egoism aside. Is it this attitude inherent also in us?
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