Recent data suggest that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It
is more like a super-complex ecosystem containing trillions of bacteria and other …

Prosociality and acts of altruism are defined as behaviours which benefit another with either
no gain or some immediate cost to the self. To understand the evolutionary origins of these …

Oxytocin facilitates social recognition in rats and mice, onset of maternal behavior in virgin
mice and formation of pair bonds without copulation in prairie voles. However, the …

The issue whether non-human primates have other-regarding preference and/or inequity
aversion has been under debate. We investigated whether tufted capuchin monkeys are …

Simple Summary Social bonds are well-known to affect individual decisions or responses in
specific situations, however, the impact of sociality on the individual activity behaviour of …

Social-cognitive processes facilitate the use of environmental cues to understand others,
and to be understood by others. Animal models provide vital insights into the neural …

Prosociality is important for initiating cooperation. Interestingly, while wolves rely heavily on
cooperation, dogs' do so substantially less thus leading to the prediction that wolves are …

High levels of social tolerance are considered to promote social learning, as they allow
direct observation of a manipulating conspecific and facilitate scrounging. Owing to …

We introduce an evolutionary game in which envy and charity can be considered as a
consequence of Darwinian competition, ie individuals aim at increasing their own proportion …

Many primates share food, but the motives behind this food sharing are mostly not known.
We investigated individuals' preference to feed either alone or together with a tolerant …