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

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1285-1294

  Spagnoletti, Noemi ^a,b   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^a   Verderane, Michele P ^c   Ottoni, Eduardo ^c   Izar, Patricia ^c   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearded capuchin; Cebus libidinosus; Fallback food; Necessity hypothesis; Nut cracking; Opportunity hypothesis; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLY; NUT; PRIMATE; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SYMPATRY; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE; CEBUS; CEBUS LIBIDINOSUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859717050     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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