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The prosocial choice test is sensitive to chimpanzees' preferences for human partner sex and familiarity, but not to the strategies humans use

2026-05-26

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Chimpanzees' prosocial behavior toward conspecifics has been extensively studied, yet interactions with humans remain largely unexplored. The present study examined whether chimpanzees' prosocial choices in the Prosocial Choice Test (PCT) are influenced by human partner characteristics (sex and familiarity) and by the strategies employed by human partners. Four chimpanzees <italic>(P...

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89c9dfc1-4eff-53f3-89f5-dac766853a37
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-9701946/v1
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