Critically endangered blonde capuchins fish for termites and use new techniques to accomplish the task

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 532-535

  Souto, Antonio ^a   Bione, Camila B C ^a   Bastos, Monique ^b   Bezerra, Bruna M ^c   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^d   Schiel, Nicola ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blonde capuchins; Cognition; Manual skills; Primates; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CAPTURE METHOD; COGNITION; DIET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PRIMATE; TERMITE; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOPTERA; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOPTERA; MALE; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

ATLANTIC FOREST;

CEBUS; FLAVIUS; ISOPTERA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79960338696     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0034     Document Type: Article

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