Chimpanzees successfully play the Ultimatum Game: Apes' sense of fairness confirmed
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have shown that chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human. Biologists played the Ultimatum Game with the chimpanzees to determine how sensitive the animals are to the reward distribution between two individuals if both need to agree on the outcome.