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Digging up food: excavation stone tool use by wild capuchin monkeys

Capuchin monkeys at Serra da Capivara National Park (SCNP) usually forage on the ground for roots and fossorial arthropods, digging primarily with their hands but also using stone tools to loosen the soil and aid the digging process. Here we describe the stone tools used for digging by two groups of...

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Autores principales: Falótico, Tiago, Siqueira, José O., Ottoni, Eduardo B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28740211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06541-0