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Published online 26 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050124-7
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All's fair between friendly chimps
Apes tolerate injustice if they are close to the beneficiary.
Chimpanzees will tolerate unfair treatment, as long as it benefits someone they know well, say US researchers. This is the first time such behaviour has been demonstrated outside the human race.
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