Compared to children, adults don't play as much, but social play into adulthood is considered a universal human trait. Play has a role in building tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. By comparison, play in adults of other species has been considered rare, and yet a new study reported in Current Biology shows that some chimpanzees, like people, continue to play often throughout their entire lives and especially before engaging in acts …

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Wild chimpanzees play as adults to better cooperate as a group, researchers suggest

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Compared to children, adults don't play as much, but social play into adulthood is considered a universal human trait. Play has a role in building tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. By comparison, play in adults of other species has been considered rare, and yet a new study shows that some chimpanzees, like people, continue to play often throughout their entire lives and especially before engaging in acts that require collective coop…

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These wild chimpanzees play as adults to better cooperate as a group

Adult chimpanzees in the Taï Forest demonstrate that social play is crucial for cooperation and conflict resolution. Through playful interactions, they strengthen bonds and prepare for collective activities, showing similarities to human social play. Adult Play and Social Cohesion While adults play less often than children, social play in adulthood remains a universal human trait. [...]

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How Wild Chimps Use Play to Foster Lifelong Cooperation

Adult chimpanzees in the Taï Forest demonstrate that social play is crucial for cooperation and conflict resolution. Through playful interactions, they strengthen bonds and prepare for collective activities, showing similarities to human social play. Adult Play and Social Cohesion While adults play less often than children, social play in adulthood remains a universal human trait. […]

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The chimpanzees were more likely to infect the behavior of grooming when they observed it in another individual with whom they had a close relationship. Social play between adult chimpanzees is not usually a daily behavior, but it exists, sometimes throughout life, and occurs especially before participating in acts that require collective cooperation or to relax situations of tension. At least, this is the case in three cohesive groups of chimpa…

Los chimpancés eran más propensos a contagiar el comportamiento de acicalamiento cuando lo observaban en otro individuo con el que tenían una relación estrecha.     El juego social entre chimpancés adultos no suele ser un comportamiento cotidiano, pero existe, a veces durante toda la vida, y se produce especialmente antes de participar en actos que requieren una cooperación colectiva o para relajar situaciones de tensión. Al menos, ese es el cas…

Wild chimpanzees play as adults to better cooperate as a group, researchers suggest

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