Nut-cracking monkeys don't just use tools. They use tools with skill. That's the conclusion of a new study that finds similar tool-use strategies between humans and Brazil's bearded capuchin monkeys, ...
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"The Nutcracker" ballet may feature a mouse king, but wild bearded capuchin monkeys are the real nut-cracking kings. New research found that these animals put together their own nut-cracking devices ...
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For years, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama had whispered about the remote island where monkeys used stone tools. A botanist had witnessed the phenomenon ...
To investigate the scavenging behaviour first author Bryndan van Pinxteren of the University of Amsterdam analysed all video material from the camera traps by scoring the visiting behaviour of ...
A study of chimpanzees' use of hammers to open nuts in western Africa may provide fresh clues to how tools developed among human ancestors. A paper published in the May 24 issue of the journal Science ...
The macaques of southern Thailand have started a new tradition. For at least a century, they have used simple stone tools to smash open shellfish on the seashore. Now the monkeys have begun using ...
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