Yeah, chimps, bonobos (contrary to the popular conception), and humans all practice scapegoating, applying collective frustration/anxiety to a vulnerable member

Yeah, chimps, bonobos (contrary to the popular conception), and humans all practice scapegoating, applying collective frustration/anxiety to a vulnerable member of the group). In the case of bonobos, there's an Attenborough doc where he literally narrates a scene of a young Bonobo after being mobbed on though I understand it appears fallacious since I can't recall which. But yeah, social hierarchy is endemic to, at the least, great apes like us, the difference just lies in how we deal with it. The most sexually successful Gorilla males appear to have figured out that you also have to show females that you're willing to give attention to kids even when they're not yours to demostrate real value as a mate, so our part of the animal family tree isn't without its improvements.