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Predatory attack on a bearded capuchin monkey by a Boa constrictor. [PDF]

Primates
Predation influences foraging strategies, as primates must avoid being preyed on while feeding. Some populations of capuchin monkeys are the only neotropical primates that customarily use the ground for nut-cracking.
Valença T, Cardoso E, Falótico T.
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Monkey Meltdowns: Do Tantrums Influence Maternal Investment in Bearded Capuchin Monkeys? [PDF]

Dev Psychobiol
ABSTRACT Tantrums are widely discussed in human development literature and are typically defined as displays of frustration or anger. In behavioral ecology, they are hypothesized to function as a strategy for securing greater maternal investment. Infant primates often exhibit tantrums when their attempts to obtain maternal care are rejected.
Cera MB, Araujo G, Lima HF, Oka M, Andrietta V, Izar P.   +5 more
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ON LOSS AVERSION IN CAPUCHIN MONKEYS [PDF]

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Chen, Lakshminarayanan, and Santos (2006) claim to show in three choice experiments that monkeys react rationally to price and wealth shocks, but, when faced with gambles, display hallmark, human‐like biases that include loss aversion. We present three experiments with monkeys and humans consistent with a reinterpretation of their data that attributes ...
Alan, Silberberg, Peter G, Roma, Mary E, Huntsberry, Frederick R, Warren-Boulton, Takayuki, Sakagami, Angela M, Ruggiero, Stephen J, Suomi   +6 more
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Primate richness and abundance is driven by both forest structure and conservation scenario in Costa Rica.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Variation in tropical forest management directly affects biodiversity and provisioning of ecosystem services on a global scale, thus it is necessary to compare forests under different conservation approaches such as protected areas, payments for ...
Christopher Eric Johnson, Kathryn A Tafoya, Peter Beck, Amy Concilio, Kurt E White, Rodolfo Quirós, Michael D Wasserman   +6 more
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Bimanual Coordination and Right-Hand Bias in Extractive Foraging by Wild Sapajus libidinosus. [PDF]

Am J Primatol
Wild Sapajus libidinosus exhibit a significant preference at the population level for using their right‐hand fingers to extract nut kernels when employing bimanual coordination. ABSTRACT Bimanual coordination is considered a crucial factor in the evolution of manual lateralization.
Truppa V, Soraci I, Marino LA, Fragaszy DM, Izar P, Visalberghi E.   +5 more
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Endowment effect in capuchin monkeys [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008
In humans, the capacity for economically rational choice is constrained by a variety of preference biases: humans evaluate gambles relative to arbitrary reference points; weigh losses heavier than equally sized gains; and demand a higher price for owned goods than for equally preferred goods that are not yet owned.
Lakshminaryanan, Venkat, Keith Chen, M, Santos, Laurie R   +2 more
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Variation in personality can substitute for social feedback in coordinated animal movements

Communications Biology, 2021
Planas-Sitjà, Deneubourg and Cronin use a theoretical approach to examine the importance of personality and feedback in the emergence of collective movement decisions in animal groups.
Isaac Planas-Sitjà, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Adam L. Cronin   +2 more
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Unexpected rabies variant identified in kinkajou (Potos flavus), Mato Grosso, Brazil

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2020
A second case of a novel rabies variant described once in a capuchin monkey from Mato Grosso, Brazil, was discovered in a rabid wild kinkajou from the same region, indicating a public health risk following exposure to either of the two animals.
Paulo Ricardo Dell’Armelina Rocha, Andres Velasco-Villa, Ernani Machado de Lima, Angela Salomoni, Alice Fusaro, Eunice da Conceição Souza, Risia Lopes Negreiros, Vera Lúcia Zafino, Gianpiero Zamperin, Stefania Leopardi, Isabella Monne, Paola De Benedictis   +11 more
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Identification of multiple TAR DNA binding protein retropseudogene lineages during the evolution of primates

Scientific Reports, 2022
The TAR DNA Binding Protein (TARDBP) gene has become relevant after the discovery of its several pathogenic mutations. The lack of evolutionary history is in contrast to the amount of studies found in the literature.
Juan C. Opazo, Kattina Zavala, Luis Vargas-Chacoff, Francisco J. Morera, Gonzalo A. Mardones   +4 more
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Capuchin monkeys are sensitive to others' welfare [PDF]

Current Biology, 2008
SummaryHumans demonstrate altruistic behaviors in a variety of contexts [1,2], but there is growing experimental evidence that our closest living primate relative, the chimpanzee, does not always share our human prosocial tendencies [3,4]. Although chimpanzees behave cooperatively in some contexts, there is growing evidence that chimpanzees are ...
Lakshminarayanan, Venkat R., Santos, Laurie R.   +1 more
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