Fairness and Monkey - The Grapes and the Cucumbers

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The first study found that capuchin monkeys paid attention to what other ones were getting. The famous experimentt you can find on lhy internet, shows one monkey gets cucumber slices, the other one gets grapes for the same task. But if the other one is getting grapes, then the one who gets cucumber gets very upset and doesn't want to do it any more. It's almost like an irrational response. If you look at it from the perspective of a co operative primate, they are co operative primates too. You need to watch what you get.

Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others. Primates, a group that includes apes, monkeys, lemurs, and others besides ourselves, are our closest relatives, and they exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that we can easily recognize. Frans de Waal is a leading primatologist and ethologist who has long studied cognition and collective behaviors in chimps, bonobos, and other species. His work has established the presence of politics, morality, and empathy in primates. His new book is Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.

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Frans de Waal received his Ph.D. in biology from Utrecht University. He is currently Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among his awards are the Knight of the order of the Netherlands Lion, the Galileo Prize, ASP Distinguished Primatologist, and the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, not to mention an Ig Nobel Prize.

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