Science news articles about 'capuchin monkeys'

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tchaikovsky penned The Nutcracker, the last thing he probably had in mind was a capuchin monkey. And yet new research, co-directed by a researcher at ...

... to C, then A must be preferred to C. Capuchins' choices did satisfy transitivity, both ... four parmesan-tokens. These results indicate that capuchin monkeys can indeed reason about symbols. However, ...

... Research Center, Emory University, have shown capuchin monkeys, just like humans, find ... group or a stranger (a female from a different group). The capuchins then were given the choice of two tokens: ...

Team teaches capuchin monkeys game involving food handouts where players adopt helpful strategy

Wild capuchins carefully choose the most effective stones for cracking nuts, suggesting primates used stone tools earlier than thought

Capuchin monkeys make fake predator calls, then steal food left by those who scattered.

Tufted capuchin monkeys seem to be faking predator alerts to scare other monkeys away and steal their food, new research suggests.

... --even when the mimic and model are unaware of the mimicry. Now, new evidence from a study of capuchin monkeys shows a possible evolutionary benefit to being a clueless copycat (or copy-capuchin, in ...

... . P. boisei teeth were compared to those of the Old World Monkey species grey-cheeked mangabeys, and the New World Monkey species brown capuchin monkeys--both of these species consume mostly ...

... understand how the nocturnal owl monkeys developed retinas with many more rod cells than cones, while capuchin monkeys, which are active during the day (diurnal), developed more cone cells than rods. ...

Minor differences in the timing of cell proliferation can explain the large differences found in the eyes of two species -- owl monkeys and capuchin monkeys -- that evolved from a common ancestor.

... National Institutes of Health and two Italian research institutions. The study authors found that capuchin monkeys preferred the company of researchers who imitated them to that of researchers who ...

... Among these species are dolphins and macaque monkeys (an Old World monkey species). Smith recounts ... several converging studies now show that capuchin monkeys barely express a capacity for metacognition ...