Eduardo Benedicto Ottoni

• Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2024 (+ CES Transformation Fund Capstone Conference), AR.EXT

• Abstract

  The use of tools by capuchin monkeys in free and semi-free environments has been studied in Brazil for more than two decades, and the two wild populations submitted to long-term studies are located in Piauí, in the region of Fazenda Boa Vista (FBV), in Gilbués, and in the Serra da Capivara National Park (SCNP), in São Raimundo Nonato, with approximately 320km of distance between them. How…

  Ecological and social influences in the use of lithic tools for digging in the foraging of tufted capuchin monkeys from the Serra da Capivara National Park (PI, Brazil), AP.BTA.R
• Evolutionary Approaches to Culture Workshop, AO.R

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• 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 ext…

  Tool use by capuchin monkeys: learning and tradition, BP.PD

• Abstract

  The existence of behavioral traditions - behaviors acquired via socially-biased learning - in nonhuman animals has been the subject of intense debate in the last decade. In order to be described as a behavioral tradition, a behavior must be analyzed in its three dimensions: (1) the contribution of social context, (2) the degree of dissemination of it and (3) how long the behavior persists…

  Effects of the social dynamics in the diffusion of a novel tool-using behaviours in groups of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) inhabiting the caatinga of The Serra da Capivara National Park, BP.DR

• Abstract

  The spontaneous use of tools by capuchin monkeys (Cebus sp.) has been studied by the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory in wild and semi-free groups. In the Tietê Ecological Park, the use of stones for cracking jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana) nuts has been a target of naturalistic studies for more than a decade. Recently, we also started to study this behavior through "experimental intervention…

  Sequential organization of behavior in nut cracking by semifree capuchin monkeys (Cebus sp.), BP.MS

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The goal of the "Primate Archaeology" project is to address the systematic comparative study of wild primate technologies, recognition of the time depth and cultural variation among those technologies, and construction of suitable models for relating the evolutionary trajectories of human and non-human tool use. The posdoc will work with two of the three species targets of the project, ca…

  Primate Archaeology, BE.EP.PD

• Abstract

  The occurrence of behavioral traditions - trans-generational behaviors that result from socially-biased learning - in nonhuman animals has been subject of intense debate in the last decade. To be classified as a behavioral tradition, the behavior must be acquired by naive individuals through learning that is somehow mediated or facilitated by the behavior of a co-specific. Our goal is to …

  Identifying behavioral traditions: social networks and the diffusion of behavior within groups of wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus), BE.EP.DR