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 ...
Some monkeys have learned to use the world around them to their advantage, using stones as tools to break open hard shells, and get to otherwise inaccessible prey. While tool use may open the door to ...
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 ...
Discover how capuchin monkeys in Serra da Capivara National Park are reshaping our understanding of stone tools and hominin evolution. To sum up their paper, published today in Nature, researchers ...
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 ...
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, ...
Brazilian monkeys were using stone tools hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, and may have inadvertently introduced humans to cashew nuts, scientists have discovered. Archaeological evidence ...
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 ...
Brazilian capuchins have been monkeying around with stone tools for hundreds of years, Oxford University scientists have discovered. The primates have been observed using stones as hammers and anvils ...