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Digging up food: excavation stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys.
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- Object and tool manipulation diversity in an urban capuchin monkey (Sapajus libidinosus) group in Brasília National park.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Ontogenetic Changes in Feeding Behaviors in Tufted Capuchins.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Characterization of Stone Tool Use in Wild Groups of Critically Endangered Yellow-Breasted Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus xanthosternos).American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Social tolerance and success-biased social learning underlie the cultural transmission of an induced extractive foraging tradition in a wild tool-using primate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- A new addition to the toolbox: stone tool use in blonde capuchin monkeys (Sapajus flavius).Primates; journal of primatology · 2024Article
- Nut-cracking success and efficiency in two wild capuchin monkey populations.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Wild capuchin monkeys use stones and sticks to access underground food.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Coupling of coastal activity with tidal cycles is stronger in tool-using capuchins (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Insights into the evolutionary history of the most skilled tool-handling platyrrhini monkey: Sapajus libidinosus from the Serra da Capivara National Park.Genetics and molecular biology · 2023Article
- Bone-related behaviours of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) during two excavating experiments.Primates; journal of primatology · 2023Article
- Earliest evidence of primate captivity and translocation supports gift diplomacy between Teotihuacan and the Maya.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Stone tools differences across three capuchin monkey populations: food's physical properties, ecology, and culture.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging.Primates; journal of primatology · 2019Article
- Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology.PloS one · 2019Article
- Habitual stone-tool-aided extractive foraging in white-faced capuchins,Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) at Serra das Confusões National Park, Brazil.Primates; journal of primatology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Capuchin monkeys at Serra da Capivara National Park (SCNP) usually forage on the ground for roots and fossorial arthropods, digging primarily with their hands but also using stone tools to loosen the soil and aid the digging process. Here we describe the stone tools used for digging by two groups of capuchins on SCNP. Both groups used tools while digging three main food resources: Thiloa glaucocarpa tubers, Ocotea sp roots, and trapdoor spiders. One explanation for the occurrence of tool use in primates is the "necessity hypothesis", which states that the main function of tool use is to obtain fallback food. We tested for this, but only found a positive correlation between plant food availability and the frequency of stone tools' use. Thus, our data do not support the fallback food hypothesis for the use of tools to access burrowed resources.
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