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1Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|September 23, 2025
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A recent study found that marmoset monkeys learned to coordinate their actions to successfully complete a cooperative pulling task. Notably, the marmosets flexibly adapted their cooperative behaviors based on social context, demonstrating that cognitively guided cooperation is more widespread and dynamic in nonhuman primates than previously recognized.
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