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dc.contributor.authorNolte, Suska
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-23T11:30:07Z
dc.date.available2021-03-23T11:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-10
dc.identifier273004368
dc.identifierb22662b9-72dd-4d83-bbe9-feccd29f1e09
dc.identifier85104774617
dc.identifier000627841900001
dc.identifier.citationNolte , S & Call , J 2021 , ' Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 8 , no. 3 , 201688 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201688en
dc.identifier.issn2054-5703
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/91340983
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21689
dc.descriptionFunding: European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework 819 Programme (FP7/2017-2013) under grant agreement No. 609819 – SOMICS.en
dc.description.abstractDirectly comparing the prosocial behaviour of our two closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, is essential to deepening our understanding of the evolution of human prosociality. We examined whether helpers of six dyads of chimpanzees and bonobos transferred tools to a conspecific. In the experiment ‘Helping’, transferring a tool did not benefit the helper, while in the experiment ‘Cooperation’, the helper only obtained a reward by transferring the correct tool. Chimpanzees did not share tools with conspecifics in either experiment, except for a mother–daughter pair, where the mother shared a tool twice in the experiment ‘Helping’. By contrast, all female–female bonobo dyads sometimes transferred a tool even without benefit. When helpers received an incentive, we found consistent transfers in all female–female bonobo dyads but none in male–female dyads. Even though reaching by the bonobo receivers increased the likelihood that a transfer occurred, we found no significant species difference in whether receivers reached to obtain tools. Thus, receivers' behaviour did not explain the lack of transfers from chimpanzee helpers. This study supports the notion that bonobos might have a greater ability to understand social problems and the collaborative nature of such tasks.
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dc.format.extent1148472
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofRoyal Society Open Scienceen
dc.subjectCooperationen
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectAltruismen
dc.subjectBonobosen
dc.subjectInstrumental helpingen
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.titleTargeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobosen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsos.201688
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber609819en


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