Bianca de Oliveira Fonseca

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

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Abstract
The spontaneous use of tools by capuchin monkeys has been studied by the Laboratory of Cognitive Ethology in wild and semifree-ranging groups. In the Tietê Ecological Park, the use of stones to crack open jerivá's nuts has been the target of naturalistic studies for over a decade. Recently, we start to study this behavior also through "experimental interventions" to deepen our understandi…
Selection and transport of tools to crack open nuts by semifree-ranging capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): experimental manipulation of costs, quality of "hammers" and the distance between "hammers" and "anvils"., BP.MS

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