# Moral behavior in animals

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxPeachtree
- Speaker: Frans de Waal
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Philosophy
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_moral_behavior_in_animals)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What happens when two monkeys are paid unequally? Fairness, reciprocity, empathy, cooperation -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.

## Lectures

1. [Moral behavior in animals](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/frans_de_waal_moral_behavior_in_animals/a871e3ff8839), 17 min (TED's player)