capuchin

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She currently studies cooperation and other social behaviors in capuchin monkeys.

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

And the assemblages that macaques and capuchin monkeys create suggest that stone tool use may have begun much earlier in evolutionary history than previously thought.

From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 2023

We entered the church, where we found a very handsome young capuchin friar, with his brown cowl and the white cord about his waist, who offered to conduct us to the catacombs.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker