Envious capuchin monkeys react badly to raw deals

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Dec 5, 2009 11:00 PMNov 5, 2019 12:11 AM

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Two years ago, Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center found that brown capuchin monkeys also react badly to receiving raw deals. Forget bananas - capuchins love the taste of grapes and far prefer them over cucumber. If monkeys were rewarded for completing a task with cucumber while their peers were given succulent grapes, they were more likely to shun both task and reward.

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