This article is reposted from the old Wordpress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. Two years ago, Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center found that ...

Humans aren’t the only ones who hate a bum deal, it turns out. In a recent study, brown capuchin monkeys trained to exchange a granite token for a cucumber treat often refused the swap if they saw ...

There’s a story that illustrates the near-universal response to pay inequality—frustration—and it involves monkeys and grapes. Brosnan and De Waal’s video contains a deep truth, but the salaries ...

It turns out monkeys know when they get a raw deal – which, in this case, is a cucumber. In a study being published today, scientists report that for the first time a species of nonhuman primate knows ...

Female brown capuchin monkeys tend to turn uncooperative, and sometimes even throw things, if they see a neighbor receiving a lovely grape in exchange for the same token that gets them only a cucumber ...

Capuchin monkeys usually like eating cucumber. But when researchers Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal put two of the highly intelligent, cat-sized primates next to one another, gave one monkey watery ...

Monkeys were taught in an experiment to hand over pebbles in exchange for cucumber slices. They were happy with this deal. Then the researcher randomly offered one monkey — in sight of a second — an ...

A little more than 10 years ago, doctoral candidate Sarah Brosnan wanted to know if the notion of fairness exists outside of the human species. Brosnan constructed an experiment where Capuchin monkeys ...

One reason I look forward to attending the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit each year is that it's often the first place I hear about phenomena or trends that become more widely ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. Two years ago, Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center found that ...