Researchers unravel ways capuchin monkeys select effective tools
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 15:56
in Psychology & Sociology
(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 the University of Georgia, is changing our view about which nutcracker should be the focus of our attention.
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