Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Cebus libidinosus. Is it a strategy to overcome food scarcity?

Authors: N. Spagnoletti, E. Visalberghi, M.P. Verderane, E. Ottoni, P. Izar, D. Fragaszy

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, bearded capuchin, cebus libidinosus, fallback food, necessity hypothesis, nut cracking, opportunity hypothesis

2012

Wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) place nuts in anvils selectively

Authors: Qing Liu, Dorothy Fragaszy, Barth Wright, Kristin Wright, Patricia Izar, Elisabetta Visalberghi

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *tool use, affordance, anvil use, capuchin, cebus libidinosus, embodied cognition, nut cracking, perception-action, selectivity, social influence

2011

Development of skilled detection and extraction of embedded prey by wild brown capuchin monkeys (cebus apella apella)

Authors: Noëlle Gunst, Sue Boinski, Dorothy M. Fragaszy

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: cebus apella apella, detection techniques, extractive foraging, ontogeny, searching and handling components

2010

Choosing and Using Tools: Capuchins (Cebus apella) Use a Different Metric Than Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Authors: S.E. Cummins-Sebree, D.M. Fragaszy

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *choice behavior, animal behavior, animal behaviour, animals, cebus, choice behaviour, mathematics, saguinus, species specificity

2005

Food-washing behaviour in tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, and crabeating macaques, Macaca fascicularis

Authors: Elisabetta Visalberghi, Dorothy M. Fragaszy

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: food-washing behavior

1990