“To err is human, to forgive divine.” While conflict in any social group is inevitable, a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE found that animals, too, are capable of reconciling after fights. observed red-necked wallabies at the Tierparc Zoo in Berlin the marsupials get aggressive with each other They found that reconciliation depended on how intense the fight became The wallabies demonstrated signs of making up after a low-intensity fight grooming and playing with their former foe but both victim and aggressor demonstrated reduced anxiety for both parties once they had reconciled © 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.