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Chimpanzees successfully play the Ultimatum Game: Apes’ sense of fairness confirmed
January 14, 2013 by NewsBot
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.