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But if he sees that another chimpanzee is getting a better reward for the same task - say, a raisin - he will get annoyed and refuse to perform.
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This may suggest that the chimpanzee has some rudimentary sense of economics, but not necessarily that he has a sense of morality. If the chimpanzee who received the higher reward refused to perform until his companion were offered the same, perhaps we might be heading towards morality - although that too could be argued to be little more than a higher form of self-interest.