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Jealous much?

Stuff You Should Know

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The Importance of Fairness in Animal Behavior

A sense of fairness does not indicate jealousy. And what's more, the animals may have envied the other animals' treat. The monkeys would actually just stop performing because they didn't get a treat as good as the other monkey. I don't think that the proceedings of the National Academy of Science got it wrong. But sometimes NPR gets things wrong. Well, sometimes. Might use a pain for me to say it.

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