The production and use of digging tools by monkeys: a nonhuman primate model of a hominid subsistence activity.
This research examined the production and use of digging tools by tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). We provided groups of subjects with sticks and containers that held peanuts buried in hard-packed earth. Nine of the ten subjects used their fingers to loosen earth and their hands to scoop aw...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Anthropological Research Vol. 51; pp. 1 - 9 |
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University of New Mexico
Spring 1995
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