The manifold use of pounding stone tools by wild capuchin monkeys of Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil

Behaviour

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 421-442

  Falótico, Tiago ^a,b   Ottoni, Eduardo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caatinga; Capuchin monkey; Cebus libidinosus; Pounding stone tool; Sapajus libidinosus; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976549434     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003357     Document Type: Article

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