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SARAH MCPHERSON
Q&A editor

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AMY-JANE BEER
Naturalist and author Chimps, like humans, can
be keen to witness bad
players being chastised.

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Ornitholog gist

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British Dragonfly Society

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JAMES FAIR of justice?
Environment editor A The urge to see justice done is

not uniquely human. In a series
of experiments on children and
chimpanzees, psychologists used
puppets to act out a scene featuring a
good, generous character and a bad, selfish
one. After the performance, the antisocial
individual gets taken out of sight of the
spectators to be “punished” for its actions. The
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