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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 366, Issue 1567, Pages 988-996Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0317
Keywords
capuchins; social traditions; social conventions; Cebus; social learning
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- National Science Foundation [0613226, 6812640]
- National Geographic Society
- L.S.B. Leakey Foundation
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0848360] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0848360] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0613226] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Capuchin monkeys (genus Cebus) have evolutionarily converged with humans and chimpanzees in a number of ways, including large brain size, omnivory and extractive foraging, extensive cooperation and coalitionary behaviour and a reliance on social learning. Recent research has documented a richer repertoire of group-specific social conventions in the coalition-prone Cebus capucinus than in any other non-human primate species; these social rituals appear designed to test the strength of social bonds. Such diverse social conventions have not yet been noted in Cebus apella, despite extensive observation at multiple sites. The more robust and widely distributed C. apella is notable for the diversity of its tool-use repertoire, particularly in marginal habitats. Although C. capucinus does not often use tools, white-faced capuchins do specialize in foods requiring multi-step processing, and there are often multiple techniques used by different individuals within the same social group. Immatures preferentially observe foragers who are eating rare foods and hard-to-process foods. Young foragers, especially females, tend to adopt the same foraging techniques as their close associates.
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