Apes unwilling to gamble when odds are uncertain
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 21:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Humans are known to play it safe in a situation when they aren't sure of the odds, or don't have confidence in their judgments. We don't like to choose the unknown. And new evidence is showing that chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living primate relatives, treat the problem the same way we do.