Adult bonobos show no prosociality in both prosocial choice task and group service paradigm

• Published in: PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) Vol. 10; p. e12849
• Main Authors: Verspeek, Jonas, van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C., Laméris, Daan W., Staes, Nicky, Stevens, Jeroen M. G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States PeerJ. Ltd 01.02.2022; PeerJ, Inc; PeerJ Inc
• Subjects: Animal Behavior; Animal cognition; Animals; Anthropology; Behavior; Behavior, Animal; Communal breeding; Cooperative Behavior; Domestication; Environmental Sciences; Feeding Behavior; Food; Food-provisioning; Free choice; Group experiment; Helping behavior; Hypotheses; Monkeys & apes; Pan paniscus; Pan troglodytes; Pan universal; Paradigm; Paradigms; Psychological research; Pygmy chimpanzee; Social aspects; Social Behavior; Zoology; Belgium; Group experiment; Age effect; Pan universal; Paradigm; Zoo-housed; Pan paniscus; Ecological validity; Food-provisioning; Free choice; Great apes

Previous studies reported contrasting conclusions concerning bonobo prosociality, which are likely due to differences in the experimental design, the social dynamics among subjects and characteristics of the subjects themselves. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the occurrence of prosocia...