Non-human primates are marked by well-developed prosocial and cooperative tendencies
as reflected in the way they support each other in fights, hunt together, share food and …

The aim of this review is to discuss recent arguments and findings in the comparative study
of empathy. Based on a multidisciplinary approach including psychology and ethology, we …

How animals respond to conflict provides key insights into the evolution of socio-cognitive
and emotional capacities. Evidence from apes has shown that, after social conflicts …

Background Bystander affiliation (post-conflict affiliation from an uninvolved bystander to the
conflict victim) may represent an expression of empathy in which the bystander consoles the …

Many animal species are “cultural” in the sense that individuals acquire important behaviors
and skills from groupmates via social learning. Thus, whales socially learn some foraging …

Contact directed by uninvolved bystanders toward others in distress, often termed
consolation, is uncommon in the animal kingdom, thus far only demonstrated in the great …

Because conflicts among social group members are inevitable, their management is crucial
for group stability. The rarest and most interesting form of conflict management is policing, ie …

An important debate centres around the nature of prosociality in nonhuman primates.
Chimpanzees help other individuals in some experimental settings, yet they do not readily …

The causes and consequences of individual differences in animal behavior and stress
physiology are increasingly studied in wild animals, yet the possibility that stress physiology …

Moral behaviour, based on social norms, is commonly regarded as a hallmark of humans.
Hitherto, humans are perceived to be the only species possessing social norms and to …