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ANIMAL COGNITION
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 407-414Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0072-9
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tool-use; token; cognition; capuchin; Cebus
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R03HD39647-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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Three experiments were conducted to test whether a pair of tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) could generalize their ability to exchange tokens and tool objects with a human experimenter to similar exchanges with a conspecific partner. Monkeys were tested in side-by-side enclosures, one enclosure containing a tool-use apparatus and one or more token(s), and the other enclosure containing one or more tool object(s). The monkeys willingly transferred tokens and tools to a conspecific with little practice. Following a small amount of training, we also found that the monkeys would select situation-appropriate tokens to exchange for specific tools, but did not select appropriate tool objects in response to another monkey's token transfers. Implications regarding role reversal are discussed.
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