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Bonobos Share with Strangers First Bonobos will readily share food, but theyll offer it up to a strange bonobo before they give it to a member of their known group. Sophie Bushwick reports Sharing is one of the hallmarks of human behavior: give me a cookie and I’m more likely to give you one later. But our bonobo cousins have an odd variation on the practice. They share with strangers before friends. The finding is in the journal PLoS ONE. [Jingzhi Tan and Brian Hare, Bonobos Share with Strangers] Researchers tested bonobo sharing in experiments involving fourteen of the apes. All were born