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 ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The path of human evolution may need to be rewritten after archaeologists discovered that monkeys also produce ‘tool-like flakes’ that were thought to be uniquely man-made. In a discovery that calls ...

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We’re not about to find ourselves plunged into the world of Planet of the Apes – but Brazilian capuchin monkeys have entered the Stone Age. In fact, the Brazilian monkeys have been using stone tools ...