Altruistic Behavior

• Specimen: Cotton-Top Tamarin
• Location: Dickerson Park Zoo
• Relates to term: Monkeys are known to care for other babies in their group while parents are away or dead, they gather food together as well as protect the group by distracting the predator while the rest of the group gets away. 
• Definition: unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others ( egoistic). (2) of or pertaining to behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind, often its close relatives.