capuchin

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These tools may help them get at many questions surrounding capuchin monkey behavior, including how they decide whether to cooperate or compete with one another while they are interacting in their natural world.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

If a species is a generalist, able to adapt to its circumstances — think about the racoons or deer in your suburban neighborhood, or the capuchin in this study — it may need less help.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024

In one famous experiment, researchers trained two capuchin monkeys to hand them tokens in exchange for a cucumber snack.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2023

The study, published today in Science Advances, adds to another recent finding that Brazilian white-faced capuchin monkeys also produce stone flakes.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 9, 2023

I should have forgotten there was any other capuchin in the world than this daring rascal; but the means are not wanting, within the pale of prudence, to take satisfaction even of a capuchin.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro