A cooperation experiment with white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar).

ABSTRACT: Cooperative behaviors among individuals of numerous species play a crucial role in social interactions. There is a special interest in investigating the occurrence of cooperation among apes because this knowledge could also shed light on evolutionary processes and help us understand the origin and development of cooperation in humans and primates in general. Gibbons are phylogenetically intermediate between the great apes and monkeys, and therefore represent a unique opportunity for comparisons. The aim of the present study was to discover whether or not white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) show cooperative behaviors. In order to test for the respective behaviors, the gibbons were presented with a commonly used experimental cooperative rope-pulling task. The gibbons in this study did not e

SUBMITTER: Kopsch NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473987 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature