The adult male chimpanzee Freddy carries his adopted son Victor on his back. Credit: Tobias Deschner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyFrom Live Science:
Chimpanzees can be altruistic just like humans, according to a new study that found 18 cases of orphaned chimps being adopted in the wild.
The kind-hearted chimp parents were discovered in the Taï forest in the West African country Ivory Coast. The adoptive caregivers, both male and female, devoted large amounts of time and effort to protecting their young charges, without any obvious gain to themselves.
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