Animal behavior researchers have released incredible video of pint-sized Capuchin monkeys using stone tools to forage for their food in Brazil's Ubajara National Park. The team recorded 214 cases in ...

A 'Brown Capuchin Monkey' (Sapajus libidinosus) collects grains of corn on the banks of the Paraguay river, in Caceres, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2014. Getty Images/AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA Our bigger brains are ...

Monkeys in Brazil routinely use stones and twigs to forage for food, providing more evidence to undermine the belief that man is the only species with the intelligence to make tools. Monkeys in Brazil ...

Humans are not the only species capable of producing sharp-edged tools, scientists have discovered. In Brazil, wild capuchin monkeys appear to deliberately break stones, and this process produces ...

A species of monkey has been developing stone tools, just like humans did during the Stone Age, scientists have discovered. Capuchin monkeys have been changing the way they use instruments to eat food ...

It is seen as a rather dirty habit in human societies, but it appears some monkeys have found a more hygienic way of picking their nose. Researchers have reported seeing a wild female bearded capuchin ...

The bearded capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus) is a nimble little monkey found in the forests of northeast Brazil. S. libidinosus is not a particularly picky eater, and will happily chow down on flowers, ...

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As spa treatments go, crushed rock licked and smeared over your body might not sound particularly appealing. But this technique is used by bearded capuchin monkeys as a health treatment to prevent ...

Most humans would just use their finger to pick their nose but not this monkey, she seems to have a bit more class than us. The capuchin monkey actually prefers to use a stick. The cleanly primate can ...

Dr Lydia Luncz from Oxford University explains how non-human archaeology revealed ancient evidence of monkey tool-use. Primate archaeology is a new and unusual-sounding field, but it has revealed ...

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