Wednesday July 14, 2010
Gorillas learn to play fair by playing tag
Michael Marshall
New Scientist
There's more to an innocent game of tag than meets the eye. When gorillas play the playground favourite, it teaches them a valuable life lesson about unfairness, social boundaries and retaliation.
That, at least, is the conclusion of the first study to observe the primates' reactions to inequity outside a controlled laboratory setting.
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