Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.