Dogs and wolves share sense of fair play

[hunter]

By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent, BBC

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Scientists have long recognised that what they term a "sensitivity to inequity", or a sense of fairness, played an important role in the evolution of co-operation between humans. Basically, if others treated you badly, you quickly learned to stop working with them.

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The scientists tested similarly raised dogs and wolves that lived in packs. Two animals of each species were placed in adjacent cages, equipped with a buzzer apparatus. When the dog or wolf pressed it with their paw, both animals got a reward on some occasions. Other times, the dog or wolf doing the task got nothing while the partner did.

The key finding was that when the partner got a high value treat, the animal doing the task refused to continue with it.
"When the inequity was greatest they stopped working," said Jennifer Essler, from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40205808

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Don't you think it's time for humans to relearn this behavior?

Why do we tolerate huge income disparities, why do we allow people who refuse to pay all their workers a comfortable living wage to become billionaires?

How beaten down, how conditioned by fear and propaganda, must we be that we no longer follow our natural instincts?

[NightWatcher]

1. Humans have become Laughing (Gulls)

We squawk and scream and if we see one of our kind with something (a fish), we'll harass and pester the other to the point of dropping it so that we can try to grab at. We'd rather scream and cause each other to lose our food that drops away to another bird or a fish that gets away, all because we are worried that another gull might get something that we will not.

I've seen gulls get trapped on fishing boats as they fight and exercise gluttony that often leads to their doom. Plus they shit on things all the time.

[hunter]

4. The gulls are never going to own the boat.

Just as the impoverished or middle class person has lost ownership in this society.

[Phoenix61]

2. The reason we don't act this way is because we don't see it

How many billionaires do you hang out with? There's a reason they stick to themselves. They talk about how foreign labor or illegal immigrant labor or regulations are the reason they can't pay decent wages. Bullshit! Look at how income disparity has grown since the 50's. They used this tactic in the past, very effectively, to create racism between whites and African Americans. That they would do it again shouldn't come as a surprise. That we would fall for it again is tragic.

[DBoon]

3. Proof that dogs are more humane than Republicans

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