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 But while humans generally prefer individuals who are nice to others, a Duke University study finds bonobos are more attracted to jerks. 
 
 The researchers were surprised by the findings because these African apes -- our closest relatives in the animal kingdom along with chimpanzees -- have been shown to be less aggressive than chimps. 
 
 The results support the idea that a tendency to avoid individuals who mistreat others is one of the things that make humans different from other species. 
 
 Even infants as young as three months old show an ability to distinguish nice guys from creeps, and prefer interacting with people they see helping others over those who are mean, previous studies show. 
 
 To find out if our closest relatives share the same social bias, Duke’s Brian Hare, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, and doctoral student Christopher Krupenye studied adult bonobos at Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
 
 In one series of trials, they showed 24 bonobos animated videos of a Pac-Man-like shape as it struggles to climb a hill. Then another cartoon shape enters the scene. Sometimes it’s a helpful character who gives the Pac-Man a push to the top, and other times it’s an unhelpful one who shoves him back down. 
 
 Afterwards, the researchers offered the bonobos two pieces of apple, one placed under a paper cutout of the helpful character and another under the unhelpful one, and gauged the bonobos’ preference by watching to see which one they reached for first. 
 
 In another experiment, the bonobos watched a skit in which a human actor drops a stuffed animal out of reach. Then another person tries to return the toy to its rightful owner, but before they can a third person snatches it away. Afterwards, the bonobos choose whether to accept a piece of apple from the do-gooder or the thief. 
 
 In each experiment, the bonobos were able to distinguish between helpful and unhelpful individuals just like humans can. But unlike humans, most bonobos tended to choose the jerks. 
 
 The researchers also measured the apes’ baseline preferences for each of the people in the stuffed animal skit at the beginning of the experiment, before the drama with the toy unfolded. The bonobos liked the mean people even more after they started behaving badly. 
 
 The researchers say there may be a good reason for these puzzling results. It could be that bonobos interpret rudeness as a sign of social status and are simply trying to keep dominant individuals on their side. In other words, it pays to have powerful allies. 
 
 To test the idea, the team showed 24 bonobos another set of animated videos in which one cartoon character repeatedly prevents another one from claiming a coveted spot. The apes generally preferred the character who hogged the spot over the one who yielded. 
 
 For bonobos, schmoozing with dominant individuals could mean better access to food, mates or other perks, or less chance of being bullied themselves, Krupenye said. 
 
 The fact that bonobos prefer bullies and humans don’t suggests that an aversion to jerks is a fundamental aspect of human behavior that may be unique to our branch of the primate family tree. 
 
 In humans, the thinking goes, shunning wrongdoers not only helps people avoid bad partners, but also discourages wrongdoers from behaving badly in the first place. The threat of social rejection keeps them in check. 
 
 Scientists say this bias may be what enables humans to work together in large numbers -- even with complete strangers -- in ways that other species do not. 
 
 “Humans might have this unique preference for helpers that is really at the heart of why we’re so cooperative,” said Krupenye, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. 
 
 The results appear online January 4 in the journal Current Biology. 
 
 This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF-GRFP DGE-1106401, NSF-BCS-08-27552-02, NSF-BCS-10-25172). 
 
 CITATION: "Bonobos Prefer Individuals That Hinder Others Over Those That Help," Christopher Krupenye and Brian Hare. Current Biology, Jan. 22, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.061
– Scientists have long wondered about the "prosocial" activity of bonobos, noting how the apes appear to be more sharing and cooperative than other primates such as chimps, per the Los Angeles Times. But humans may still have them beat after a new study out of Duke University suggests bonobos prefer "jerks" rather than more helpful subjects, a release notes—perhaps setting humans apart from our closest kin in the animal kingdom. The study, which appears in the Current Biology journal, notes that by the time human infants are 3 months old, they exhibit a preference for more helpful people, but "whereas humans already prefer helpers by [that age], bonobos favor hinderers." The researchers went to work on this theory via four experiments on semi-free-ranging bonobos in a Democratic Republic of Congo sanctuary. The scientists used both live-action participants and animated videos to see if the bonobos preferred "prosocial" or "antisocial" actors. In one experiment, for example, the bonobos had to choose whether to accept apple slices from a "helper" (someone the apes had previously seen return a dropped toy to someone who'd dropped it) or a "hinderer" (someone who'd taken that toy and run away). The bonobos tended to reach out to the thief. The researchers theorize the apes may think such insolent behavior is a signifier of dominance and social status, and by choosing the bully, they'd avoid being bullied themselves and increase their chances of getting food or mates. That trait may keep bonobos from working together in large groups like humans. (Bonobos are the closest humans can get to a "living ancestor.")