Enjoying this, decades after first encountering de Waal via his excellent book on bonobos. The focus is still on primates, but he switches to birds, cetaceans, dogs, cephalopods, rats, etc. as appropriate

#books #CognitiveScience #zoology #AnimalBehavior #FransDeWaal #primatology

If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FransdeWaal #Empathy #Evolution #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

The Family of Chimps by Bert Haanstra

https://peertube.wtf/w/h6iyUr1uHyLUhb8JA3RsTw

Las cinco bonobas que mataron a un macho desafían el mito de la especie pacifista: “El ataque más violento jamás observado”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://elpais.com/ciencia/2025-10-22/las-cinco-bonobas-que-mataron-a-un-macho-desafian-el-mito-de-la-especie-pacifista-el-ataque-mas-violento-jamas-observado.html

Frans de Waal, primatologist, studies primate social behavior -- how they fight and reconcile, share and cooperate.
See his TED-talk here:
"The surprising science of alpha males"

https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males
#fransdewaal #primates #bonobo #alphamale #empathy

If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FransdeWaal #Empathy #Evolution #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FransdeWaal #Empathy #Evolution #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

War der Mensch immer schon monogam? Welche Art der Sexualität ist für uns Menschen als biologische Art "natürlich"?

Was uns der Vergleich mit den uns am nächsten Verwandten Tierarten (Bonobos und Schimpansen) dazu sagt - und was es uns nicht sagt.

(Forschungsstand von 1995, d.h. wissenschaftlich gesehen eine Ewigkeit her; dennoch auch heute noch interessant)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOnQe7K8Gmc

#Anthropologie #Sexualmoral #FransdeWaal #Primatologie #Verhaltensforschung #Menschenaffen #FissionFusion