Tool use by capuchin monkeys: learning and tradition

• Grant number: 13/05219-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Benedicto Ottoni
• Grantee: Tiago Falótico
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/18364-1 - Primate Archaeology, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The project aims to continue the study of the use of tools by a group of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) in Serra da Capivara National Park, focusing mainly on the ontogenetic development of the use of stick probes, a common behavior in the repertoire of local groups, but virtually absent in other wild populations. This population is the only one observed, so far, exhibiting an extended tool-kit including stick probes, as well as different kinds of lithic tools, which probably constitute behavioral traditions resulting from socially biased learning. The project aims to expand the records about tools used by this population and to examine the individual and social learning opportunities in the development of the young monkeys.Moreover, it is expected the first studies of the capuchin monkeys population of Serra das Confusões National Park, which is 100km far from Serra da Capivara N.P. and where there is only indirect evidence of tool use by capuchin monkeys.Moreover, it is expected the first studies of the capuchin monkeys population of Serra das Confusões National Park, which is 100km far from Serra da Capivara N.P. and where there is only indirect evidence of tool use by capuchin monkeys.Moreover, it is expected the early studies of the population of capuchin monkeys National Park of Sierra Confusions, which is 100km from PN Capivara Mountains and about which there is only indirect evidence of tool use by capuchin monkeys.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FALOTICO, TIAGO; BUENO, CAROLINA Q.; OTTONI, EDUARDO B.. Ontogeny and sex differences in object manipulation and probe tool use by wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, v. 83, n. 5, MAR 2021. (13/05219-0, 14/04818-0)

FALOTICO, TIAGO; SIQUEIRA, JOSE O.; OTTONI, EDUARDO B.. Digging up food: excavation stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 7, JUL 24 2017. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0, 06/07187-5, 14/18364-1)

FALOTICO, TIAGO; INABA, AGUMI; MCGREW, WILLIAM C.; OTTONI, EDUARDO B.. Vertical bipedal locomotion in wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus). PRIMATES, v. 57, n. 4, p. 533-540, OCT 2016. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0)

LUNCZ, LYDIA, V; ARROYO, ADRIAN; FALOTICO, TIAGO; QUINN, PATRICK; PROFFITT, TOMOS. A primate model for the origin of flake technology. Journal of Human Evolution, v. 171, p. 15-pg., 2022-10-01. (13/05219-0, 18/01292-9)

FALOTICO, TIAGO; PROFFITT, TOMOS; OTTONI, EDUARDO B.; STAFF, RICHARD A.; HASLAM, MICHAEL. Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, v. 3, n. 7, p. 1034-1038, JUL 2019. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0)

PROFFITT, TOMOS; LUNCZ, LYDIA V.; FALOTICO, TIAGO; OTTONI, EDUARDO B.; DE LA TORRE, IGNACIO; HASLAM, MICHAEL. Wild monkeys flake stone tools. Nature, v. 539, n. 7627, p. 85+, NOV 3 2016. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0)

FALOTICO, TIAGO; COUTINHO, PAULO HENRIQUE M.; BUENO, CAROLINA Q.; RUFO, HENRIQUE P.; OTTONI, EDUARDO B.. Stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) at Serra das Confuses National Park, Brazil. PRIMATES, v. 59, n. 4, p. 385-394, JUL 2018. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0)

LUNCZ, LYDIA V.; FALOTICO, TIAGO; PASCUAL-GARRIDO, ALEJANDRA; CORAT, CLARA; MOSLEY, HANNAH; HASLAM, MICHAEL. Wild capuchin monkeys adjust stone tools according to changing nut properties. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 6, SEP 14 2016. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0)

HASLAM, MICHAEL; FALOTICO, TIAGO. Nasal probe and toothpick tool use by a wild female bearded capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus). PRIMATES, v. 56, n. 3, p. 211-214, JUL 2015. (14/04818-0, 13/05219-0)

ARROYO, ADRIAN; FALOTICO, TIAGO; BURGUET-COCA, AITOR; EXPOSITO, ISABEL; QUINN, PATRICK; PROFFITT, TOMOS. Use-wear and residue analysis of pounding tools used by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) from Serra da Capivara (Piaui, Brazil). JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS, v. 35, FEB 2021. (13/05219-0, 18/01292-9)