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Chimpanzees Have Police Officers, Too

F.R. · 2012-03-09 00:55:26

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307185016.htm Full paper available here. I don't know that I'd call it moral behaviour, surely ensuring the status quo is maintained is a selfish behaviour for a high ranking ape.

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Anthropologists now reveal that chimpanzees mediate conflicts between other group members, not for their own direct benefit, but rather to preserve the peace within the group. Their impartial intervention in a conflict -- so-called "policing" -- can be regarded as an early evolutionary form of moral behavior.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120307185016.htm

Full paper available here.

I don't know that I'd call it moral behaviour, surely ensuring the status quo is maintained is a selfish behaviour for a high ranking ape.

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Was going to post this in a seperate thread but thought it might go here:)

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/201237224417979775.html

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