Very young children like fairness (so young that this is observed rather than gleaned from interviews), so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same preference for fairness was present in other intelligent social animals
I remember reading a study like this! The animals were in separate cages next to each other, and they learned they’d get a reward for some task. And if you gave the other a cucumber as a reward, they’d eat it happily until they saw you gave the other something better, and they would get angry! I think they were monkeys, but I don’t remember enough and can’t find the research…
Very young children like fairness (so young that this is observed rather than gleaned from interviews), so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same preference for fairness was present in other intelligent social animals
I remember reading a study like this! The animals were in separate cages next to each other, and they learned they’d get a reward for some task. And if you gave the other a cucumber as a reward, they’d eat it happily until they saw you gave the other something better, and they would get angry! I think they were monkeys, but I don’t remember enough and can’t find the research…
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg