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Generous Leaders and Selfish Underdogs: Pro-Sociality in Despotic Macaques

Actively granting food to a companion is called pro-social behavior and is considered to be part of altruism. Recent findings show that some non-human primates behave pro-socially. However, pro-social behavior is not expected in despotic species, since the steep dominance hierarchy will hamper pro-s...

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Autores principales: Massen, Jorg J. M., van den Berg, Lisette M., Spruijt, Berry M., Sterck, Elisabeth H. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009734