Tool Use In Primates Research Articles

Generative aspects of manipulation in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

Evaluating the cognitive and ontogenetic bases of tool use in primates requires comparative data on the generative nature of manipulation, including the frequency and variety of combinations of actions and objects. Thirty-one tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) of 3 age groups devoted significant proportions of time to interaction with objects and substrates. Activity that combined an object with a substrate occurred often; activities that combined 2 portable objects were less frequent. Predictions drawn from neo-Piagetian theory of an ontogenetic link between combinatorial behaviors and the onset of tool use were not supported. The frequency and generative nature of capuchins' manipulative activity, particularly acts combining objects and substrates, could account for their proclivity to use tools. The use of tools by capuchins need not involve the representational abilities proposed by neo-Piagetian theory.

Primate tool use: But what about their brains?

Primate tool use: But what about their brains?

Primate tool use: Parsimonious explanations make better science

Primate tool use: Parsimonious explanations make better science

Optimisation of Nut-Cracking With Natural Hammers By Wild Chimpanzees

AbstractThe chimpanzees of the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, use sticks and stones to open 5 different species of nuts. In spite of an unfavourable availability of the material in the forest, the animals choose their tools adaptively. For cracking harder nuts, they use harder and heavier tools and transport tools more often and from farther away. Some aspects of the evolution of tool-use in primates are discussed.

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