>Video: Monkey Tool Usage
Posted: April 1, 2010 Filed under: Animals, Research, Videos Leave a comment »>
(4:30) – Capuchin monkeys in an experiment in South Carolina demonstrate wonderful tool usage and remarkable problem solving abilities, to acquire honey using multiple tools.
Illustrates planning behaviour, the understanding that tools having different properties are useful for different applications, and even rudimentary bartering ability!
The token exchange is interesting in and of itself; I’m sure it took a lot of training. There is another example of its usage by the same experimenter here.
From the BBC documentary “Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle”, narrated by the ever brilliant Sir David Attenborough.
For the full 29 minute documentary, “Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle”, click here.
Source:
Westergaard, G.C., Evans, T.A., Howell, S. 2007. Token mediated tool exchange between tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Cognition 10(4):407-414. (doi:10.1007/s10071-007-0072-9)
https://commerce.metapress.com/content/c8…
