{"id":751008,"date":"2018-01-14T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751008"},"modified":"2018-01-14T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T15:20:45","slug":"unlike-humans-bonobos-shun-helpers-and-befriend-the-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751008","title":{"rendered":"Unlike Humans, Bonobos Shun Helpers And Befriend The Bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Even very young babies can tell the difference between someone who&#8217;s helpful and someone who&#8217;s mean \u2014 and lab studies show that babies consistently prefer the helpers. But one of humans&#8217; closest relatives \u2014 the bonobo \u2014 makes a different choice, preferring to cozy up to the meanies. That&#8217;s according to experiments described Thursday in the journal Current Biology, by scientists who wanted to explore the evolutionary origins of humans&#8217; unusually cooperative behavior&#8230; This bias toward helpfulness seems almost hardwired in humans&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Humans might not want to interact with someone who is not nice, but it looks like bonobos interpret the meanie&#8217;s behavior as a sign of dominance. &#8220;Dominance is really important for apes because it determines access to resources, access to food and mating opportunities and things like that,&#8221; says Krupenye. &#8220;They&#8217;re attracted to an individual who might be a powerful friend or ally, as opposed to someone who is just generally helpful or pleasant&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/knpr.org\/npr\/2018-01\/unlike-humans-bonobos-shun-helpers-and-befriend-bullies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FEATURED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zS1QOPvqVG8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE: &#8216;Even very young babies can tell the difference between someone who&#8217;s helpful and someone who&#8217;s mean \u2014 and lab studies show that babies consistently prefer the helpers. But one of humans&#8217; closest relatives \u2014 the bonobo \u2014 makes a different choice, preferring to cozy up to the meanies. That&#8217;s according to experiments described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,21,24],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-751008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-kisnship","category-science","tag-free-living","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751010,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751008\/revisions\/751010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}