Monday, July 11, 2016

Capuchin monkeys use stone tools to crack open cashew nuts - and expand the field of non-human archaeology

The semi-arid region of northeast Brazil offers little for a monkey to eat, except for a variety of hard-shelled fruits and seeds. So when capuchins arrived in this region about half a million years ago, they needed to find a way to access the only food available to them.

One ancient bearded capuchin...



via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/29LOuUe

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