Do goats lend a helping hoof? Study provides evidence of prosocial behavior in farm animals

Do goats lend a helping hoof? Study provides evidence of prosocial behavior in farm animals

Can goats help each other? A new study by the Research Institute of Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna suggests that goats exhibit prosocial behavior—i.e. they are willing to help others without direct self-benefit. This could make an important contribution to understanding social cognition in farm animals.

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Life in groups requires social and sometimes even unselfish behavior. As a new study suggests, goats are obviously also capable of doing so. In one experiment, the animals provided other group members with food without getting anything themselves. However, not every goat behaved equally generously. Helping each other forms the basis for the [...] The post Acting Goats Selfless? first appeared on wissenschaft.de.

A research team from Germany and Austria was able to demonstrate pro-social behaviour in individual animals, by which they themselves had no direct advantage