Bearded capuchin monkeys' and a human's efficiency at cracking palm nuts with stone tools: field experiments

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 321-332

  Fragaszy, D ^a   Pickering, T ^a   Liu, Q ^a   Izar, P ^b   Ottoni, E ^b   Visalberghi, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

anvil; body weight; capuchin; Cebus libidinosus; efficiency; hammer stone; human; nut cracking; palm nut; tool use

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY MASS; FIELD SURVEY; NUT; PRIMATE;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS LIBIDINOSUS;

EID: 74649084055     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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