Implicit and explicit category learning by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

The Investigation of Prosocial Behavior in a Tool Task by Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella)

Humans are exceptional in their willingness to and frequency with which they help one another. However, nonhuman primates also exhibit prosocial behavior. Recently, a number of laboratory studies examining prosociality among primates have yielded conflicting results. These contradictory findings may be due to a reliance on human interaction, tokens, or interactions in the direct context of food...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition Do You See What I See? A Comparative Investigation of the Delboeuf Illusion in Humans (Homo sapiens), Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta), and Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella)

Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus).

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 ot...

Social diffusion of novel foraging methods in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

It has been reported that wild capuchin monkeys exhibit several group-specific behavioural traditions. By contrast, experiments have found little evidence for the social learning assumed necessary to support such traditions. The present study used a diffusion chain paradigm to investigate whether a novel foraging task could be observationally learned by capuchins (Cebus apella) and then transmi...

Object Manipulation in a Captive Group of Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus nigritus)

Resende, B. D., Greco, V.L.G., Ottoni, E.B. and Izar, P. 2003. Some observations on the predation of small mammals by tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Neotrop. Primates 11 (2):103–104. Rose, L. 1997. Vertebrate predation and food-sharing in Cebus and Pan. Int. J. Primatol. 18: 727–765. Rylands, A. B., Kierulff, M. C. M. and Mittermeier, R. A. 2005. Notes on the taxonomy and distribution ...