How wild bearded capuchin monkeys select stones and nuts to minimize the number of strikes per nut cracked

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-214

  Fragaszy, Dorothy M ^a   Greenberg, Rebecca ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^b   Ottoni, Eduardo B ^c   Izar, Patricia ^c   Liu, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision making; Exploratory behaviour; Hammer stone; Haptics; Mass; Nut; Optimization; Perception; Perceptual learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; MASS; NUT; OPTIMIZATION; PERCEPTION; PRECISION; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS LIBIDINOSUS;

EID: 77954762108     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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