{"id":675372,"date":"2026-11-05T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675372\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:30:08","slug":"can-any-other-great-apes-other-than-us-that-is-keep-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675372\/","title":{"rendered":"Can any other great apes &#8211; other than us that is &#8211; keep secrets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ability to choose with whom to share sensitive information is not a uniquely human trait, says Stuart Blackman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research  shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/facts-about-chimpanzees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chimpanzees<\/a> adjust the information they share about the location of hidden food according to whether they believe others are likely to take it or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experiments involving bananas concealed in boxes showed that, while chimps will reveal hidden food to those likely to help them get to it, they keep it a secret from those with a history of selfishness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike human toddlers, though, they seem incapable of making the leap to actively hiding treasures from competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ability to choose with whom to share sensitive information is not a uniquely human trait, says Stuart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-675372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}