"I got shafted!"
Sep. 17th, 2003 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It turns out that the notion of "fair play" is not unique to humankind:
LONDON (Reuters) - When it comes to fair play, capuchin monkeys don't settle for any funny business. They demand their equal share of food or rewards for tasks they've done. They won't settle for an injustice and are miffed when they think they have been cheated, researchers said Wednesday.
"It's the first time a sense of fairness has been found in any nonhuman, at least to our knowledge," Sarah Brosnan, a researcher at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, said in an interview. from Capuchins Don't Settle for Any Monkey Business