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There was this monkey who came up with this great idea but needed other monkeys to help make the idea into reality. When the idea was turned into a finished product, the monkey who came up with idea didn't equitably share the profits. Soon the head monkey found out that that the the worker monkey's couldn't afford to buy the finished product and his idea sat on the jungle floor rotting away. Eventually the head monkey came to the realization that when he provided equitable pay to the worker monkeys that they could actually purchase the product and they all lived happily ever after.
I highlighted the important part there. The head monkey came to the realization...all by himself. He didn't need any jungle legislators to come tell him how much to pay his workers.
The ironic part is the revolving of these evolving monkeys. Same ideals continue to pop up. Intellect and will always rise only to be stifled by the envious instead of embraced.
A group of monkeys by nature allow the weak to die as they have no choice.
Elephants definitely care for their elderly, as do a few of the higher primates. But other than that, it's fairly rare for animals of any species to provide special care for their elderly or frail.
Once a species starts to develop a more sophisticated social order (culture), in which individuals band together to protect the group (especially the young), you tend to see this behavior extended to the older or sicker members of the group. But it's rare. We humans have quite a luxury.
Dana Krempels Ph.D
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