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From the Ted Talk by Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals

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So let me give you a few examples here. This is a very old video from the Yerkes Primate Center, where they teinrad chimpanzees to cooperate. So this is already about a hundred years ago that we were doing experiments on cooperation. What you have here is two young cmzeaehpnis who have a box, and the box is too heavy for one chimp to pull in. And of course, there's food on the box. Otherwise they wouldn't be pulling so hard. And so they're brinnigg in the box. And you can see that they're synchronized. You can see that they work together, they pull at the same memont. It's already a big aanvdce over many other animals who wouldn't be able to do that. Now you're going to get a more interesting picture, because now one of the two chimps has been fed. So one of the two is not really ierensettd in the task anymore.

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So let me give you a few examples here. This is a very old video from the Yerkes Primate Center, where they _______ chimpanzees to cooperate. So this is already about a hundred years ago that we were doing experiments on cooperation. What you have here is two young ___________ who have a box, and the box is too heavy for one chimp to pull in. And of course, there's food on the box. Otherwise they wouldn't be pulling so hard. And so they're ________ in the box. And you can see that they're synchronized. You can see that they work together, they pull at the same ______. It's already a big _______ over many other animals who wouldn't be able to do that. Now you're going to get a more interesting picture, because now one of the two chimps has been fed. So one of the two is not really __________ in the task anymore.

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  2. advance
  3. moment
  4. interested
  5. trained
  6. bringing

Original Text

So let me give you a few examples here. This is a very old video from the Yerkes Primate Center, where they trained chimpanzees to cooperate. So this is already about a hundred years ago that we were doing experiments on cooperation. What you have here is two young chimpanzees who have a box, and the box is too heavy for one chimp to pull in. And of course, there's food on the box. Otherwise they wouldn't be pulling so hard. And so they're bringing in the box. And you can see that they're synchronized. You can see that they work together, they pull at the same moment. It's already a big advance over many other animals who wouldn't be able to do that. Now you're going to get a more interesting picture, because now one of the two chimps has been fed. So one of the two is not really interested in the task anymore.

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