Chimps Prove Altruistic and Cooperative

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Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
16 minutes ago

Felix Warneken was in a tough spot. While hanging laundry, he had "accidentally" dropped a clothespin out of reach. Stretch as he might, he couldn’t grab it.

He even cried out, "My pin!"

A young chimpanzee sitting nearby picked up on Warneken’s distress and retrieved the clothespin for him.

Since the chimp received no reward, or even a "thank you," this experiment indicates chimps can be altruistic, a quality many scientists thought only humans possessed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060302/sc_space/chimpsprovealtruisticandcooperative

[Kookaburra]

1. So he's not a chimp, then...

...just looks like one. A chimposter.

[KamaAina]

2. Obviously junk science...

your counterexample is right here.

[DeadHorse]

3. Chumps

Don't ya just love em?!

[Dolomite]

4. But they'll never spare a smoke.

[greiner3]

5. And this one at;

Roots of altruism show in babies’ helping hands
Toddlers eager to help out, even with no prospect of reward

I guess now, as if anybody really cares, is to figure out how evolution has left the repugs behind in this. If children do it, does the act of, say puberty, cleanse repugs of being nice?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11641621/