Capuchin monkey tool use: overview and implications

EB Ottoni, P Izar - … : Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Nutcracking capuchins are mentioned in reports dating as far back as the sixteenth century,
1, 2 as well as in Brazilian folklore. 3 However, it was barely a decade ago that …

The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture

F Osiurak, E Reynaud - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Robust capuchin tool use cognition in the wild

T Falótico - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Tool use is habitual in several capuchins populations and is a valuable source of
information about physical cognition.-Those studies are on the rise and are a source of …

Linking sociality to fitness in primates: a call for mechanisms

J Ostner, O Schülke - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Within-group variation in sociality has been linked to correlates of fitness across vertebrates.
Individuals that form strong social bonds with a few partners, or are well integrated into a …

The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures

C Tennie, E Bandini, CP Van Schaik, LM Hopper - Biology & Philosophy, 2020 - Springer
The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining
cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non …

The enhanced tool‐kit of two groups of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in the Caatinga: tool making, associative use, and secondary tools

M Mannu, EB Ottoni - … Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The use of stones to crack open encapsulated fruit is widespread among wild bearded
capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) inhabiting savanna‐like environments. Some …

Social learning strategies for nut-cracking by tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.)

CG Coelho, T Falótico, P Izar, M Mannu, BD Resende… - Animal cognition, 2015 - Springer
The spontaneous use of stone tools for cracking nuts by tufted capuchin monkeys, now
known to be habitual among wild populations in savanna environments, was first described …

[图书][B] The chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba

T Matsuzawa, T Humle, Y Sugiyama - 2011 - Springer
The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which
displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to …

Field experiments find no evidence that chimpanzee nut cracking can be independently innovated

K Koops, AG Soumah, KL van Leeuwen… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Cumulative culture has been claimed a hallmark of human evolution. Yet, the uniqueness of
human culture is heavily debated. The zone of latent solutions hypothesis states that only …

The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools

DM Fragaszy, D Biro, Y Eshchar… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys
include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context …