Researchers Discover Sense of Fair Play and Morality Among Animals

Although it has always seemed obvious to me that animals have emotions and complex personalities, it’s taken the scientific community a long time to reach that conclusion. This article describes new findings in the field of animal behavior which indicate that not only do animals have emotions, but they also have a level of ethics, fair-play and morality that was previously thought to be impossible.

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2 Responses to Researchers Discover Sense of Fair Play and Morality Among Animals

  1. Buyout Blog says:

    Monkeys Exhibit Market Behavior

    Fascinating Time article on how the social interactions of animals contain many of the same characteristics as those of humans. An excerpt: In one of De Waal’s experiments at Atlanta’s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capu…

  2. Buyout Blog says:

    Monkeys Exhibit Market Behavior

    Fascinating Time article on how the social interactions of animals contain many of the same characteristics as those of humans. An excerpt: In one of De Waal’s experiments at Atlanta’s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capu…