The symbolic monkey? Token-mediated economic choices in tufted capuchins

From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artefacts. The mental representation of symbols - objects that arbitrarily represent other objects - ultimately affords the development of language, and certainly played a decisive role in the evolution of our hominid ancestors. Can other animal species also comprehend and use symbols?

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