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Specialized for the Reach: Visual Control of Fruit Picking and Positional Behavior Favor a Reach Over a Grasp Phenotype for Geoffroy's Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) [PDF]

Animal Behavior and Cognition
The Geoffroy’s spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) has distinctive features, including a vestigial external thumb, elongated fingers and forelimbs, and a prehensile tail.
Ian Q. Whishaw, Jordan Dudley, Paulo Ramírez González, Evin Murillo Chacon, Megan A. Mah, Fernando A. Campos, Filippo Aureli, Amanda D. Melin   +7 more
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Tail-use in capuchin monkeys

Neotropical Primates, 1999
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Wild capuchin monkeys use stones and sticks to access underground food

Scientific Reports
Primates employ different tools and techniques to overcome the challenges of obtaining underground food resources. Humans and chimpanzees are known to tackle this problem with stick tools and one population of capuchin monkeys habitually uses stone tools.
Tatiane Valença, Gabriela Oliveira Affonço, Tiago Falótico   +2 more
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Morphology of the shoulder muscles in Sapajus apella (Primates: Cebidae) [PDF]

Biotemas, 2013
The study of nonhuman primates has been very important, due to the similarities with the human species. Many animal species, especially primates, have been used in medical and biological researches.
Mariana Oliveira Lima, Lucélia Gonçalves Vieira, Priscilla Rosa Queiroz Ribeiro, Gilmar da Cunha Sousa, Zenon Silva, Daniela Cristina de Oliveira Silva, Roseâmely Angélica de Carvalho Barros   +6 more
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The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1235-1254, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne, Alice M. I. Auersperg   +1 more
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Oral microbiota and their antibiotic susceptibility in free-living monkeys in Goiás State, Brazil: Repercussions for injuries in humans

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Goiás State, which is in the midwest region of Brazil, has several urban forests. This fact, along with the expansion of urban areas within the limits of Forest Conservation Units, increases the contact between humans and wildlife, such as
Elisângela de Albuquerque Sobreira, Carla Afonso da Silva Bitencout Braga, Sheila Canavese Rahal, Evandro Leão Ribeiro, Lara Stefânia Netto de Oliveira Leão Vasconcelos, Lilian Carla Carneiro, Carlos Roberto Teixeira, Camila Contin Diniz de Almeida, Vidal Haddad Júnior   +8 more
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The Meaning of Mangabey Molars (And Premolars)

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The postcanine teeth of mangabeys (members of Cercocebus and Lophocebus) have figured prominently in discussions about the relationship between hard‐object feeding and dental form. Grey‐cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) and sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) both have thickly enameled posterior teeth.
Debbie Guatelli‐Steinberg, W. Scott McGraw   +1 more
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Anatomical and radiographic appearance of the capuchin monkey thoracic cavity (Cebus apella) Aparência anatômica e radiográfica da cavidade torácica do macaco-prego (Cebus apella)

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2012
The capuchin monkey is widespread both north and south of the Legal Amazon and in the Brazilian cerrado. Ten clinically healthy capuchin monkeys were submitted to an anatomical and radiographic study of their thoracic cavities.
Flávio R. Alves, Francisco B. Costa, Pedro P. Machado, Anaemilia das N. Diniz, Adriana V.C. Araújo, Carlos E. Ambrósio, Porfírio C. Guerra   +6 more
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Intrinsic Benchmark Beating

Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 1210-1234, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine the role of intrinsic motivations—psychologically based, non‐economic factors—in earnings benchmark beating by focusing on owner‐managed firms that are largely free from external pressures from shareholders, analysts, and the media.
Jeppe Christoffersen, Thomas Plenborg, Morten Seitz   +2 more
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Variation in glucocorticoid levels: survival and reproductive demands in wild black capuchins (Sapajus nigritus)

International Journal of Psychological Research, 2016
According to the concept of allostasis and its association with energy mobilization, glucocorticoids (GCs) should parallel cumulative energy expenditure for animal survival and reproduction. Therefore, it is expected that seasonal food shortages might
Caio M. Moreira, Lucas Peternelli dos Santos, Maria Bernardete Cordeiro Sousa, Patrícia Izar   +3 more
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