Why Are Animals Altruistic? Date: April 5, 2006 Source: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Summary: Researchers at the Laboratoire d'Écologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie ...

Chimpanzees have been found to be genuinely altruistic animals that care about the welfare of others, denying previous claims characterizing them as self-regarding, according to a new study.

Many acts of animal altruism can be explained via two established theories. Kin selection dictates that animals will preferentially help their relatives, thereby benefiting the altruist’s own ...

Can Animals Be Altruistic? ... And as a new study reports, it may be a rare example of true “reciprocal altruism” in animals. Watch the video above to see how. Copy Link Share Share Comment ...

Social behavior consists of a set of interactions among individuals of the same species. A wide range of sociality occurs among animals. Some animals rarely if ever interact with one another, even ...

Of course, since this is planets we’re talking about, we’re not looking at behaviors as complex as of altruistic animals, who have been known to feed, protect, and even raise animals of ...

Chimpanzees can be altruistic just like humans, according to a new study that found 18 cases of orphaned chimps being adopted in the wild. The kind-hearted chimp parents were discovered in the ...

In a 1984 study in Nature, biologist Gerald S. Wilkinson observed how wild vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) regurgitated blood for other bats that had failed to feed that night. “The premium for them ...

Animals experience a different level of cognition, so what drives humans to be altruistic might be different than what influences animals like honeybees to act in ways that appear to be altruistic.