Stone anvil damage by wild bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus) during pounding tool use: a field experiment.

We recorded the damage that wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) caused to a sandstone anvil during pounding stone tool use, in an experimental setting. The anvil was undamaged when set up at the Fazenda Boa Vista (FBV) field laboratory in Piauí, Brazil, and subsequently the monkeys i...

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Main Authors: Michael Haslam, Raphael Moura Cardoso, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Dorothy Fragaszy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4221011?pdf=render