White-Faced Capuchin, Cebus capucinus imitator, Hammerstone and Anvil Tool Use in Riparian Habitats on Coiba Island, Panama

Monteza-Moreno, Claudio M.; Dogandžić, Tamara; McLean, Kevin A.; Castillo-Caballero, Pedro Luis; Mijango-Ramos, Zarluis; Rosario-Vargas, Evelyn Del; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Barrett, Brendan J.

doi:10.1007/s10764-020-00156-5

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“…While most robust capuchin (Sapajus) species have been documented to use tools in the wild at least anecdotally, wild gracile capuchin (Cebus) species have been observed to do so much less frequently (Barrett et al, 2018;Boinski, 1988;Chevalier-Skolnikoff, 1990;Monteza-Moreno et al, 2020;Panger et al, 2002;Panger, 1998;Perry et al, 2017;Phillips, 1998), pointing to significant diversity in types of tool use actions and frequency of tool use performed across the capuchin radiation by different species. Of the robust capuchins, Sapajus libidinosus, the bearded capuchin or black-striped capuchin, is the best documented tool-using species with the most diverse tool use repertoire in the wild; some populations even exhibit habitual stone tool use for hammering (Falótico et al, 2017(Falótico et al, , 2018(Falótico et al, , 2019Presotto et al, 2020;Visalberghi et al, 2015).…”

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A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus)

Steinberg

Lynch

Cartmill

2022

American J Primatol

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Primate tool use is of great interest but has been reported only in a limited number of species. Here we report tool use in crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus), an almost completely unstudied robust capuchin species. Crested capuchins and their sister species, the yellow‐breasted capuchin, diverged from a common ancestor over 2 million years ago, so this study fills a significant gap in understanding of tool use capacity and variation within the robust capuchin monkey radiation. Our study group was a captive population of seven individuals at the Santa Ana Zoo in California. The monkeys were given no prior training, and they were provided with a variety of enrichment items, including materials that could be used as tools as well as hard‐to‐access resources, for open‐ended interactions. In 54 observation hours, monkeys performed eleven tool use actions: digging, hammering, probing, raking, sponging, striking, sweeping, throwing, waving, wedging, and wiping. We observed tool modification, serial tool use, and social learning opportunities, including monkeys' direct observation of tool use and tolerated scrounging of foods obtained through tool use. We also observed significant individual skew in tool use frequency, with one individual using tools daily, and two individuals never using tools during the study. While crested capuchins have never been reported to use tools in the wild, our findings provide evidence for the species' capacity and propensity for tool use, highlighting the urgent need for research on this understudied, endangered primate. By providing detailed data on clearly identified S. robustus individuals, this study marks an effort to counteract the overgeneralization in the captive literature in referring to any robust capuchins of unknown provenance or ancestry as Cebus apella, a practice that obfuscates potential differences among species in tool use performance and repertoire in one of the only species‐rich tool‐using genera in the world.

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A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus)

Steinberg

Lynch

Cartmill

2022

American J Primatol

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“…White-faced capuchins in Coiba National Park, Panama (hereafter Coiban capuchins), have been reported to habitually conduct first-order (e.g., pounding of coconuts on anvils; Méndez-Carvajal & Valdés-Díaz, 2017) and second-order tool use (e.g., hammerstone and anvil stone tool use; Barrett et al, 2018;Monteza-Moreno, Dogandžić, et al, 2020). This habitual tool use behavior provides the opportunity to explore: i) if capuchins adjust their patterns of activity to coincide with the tides and ii) whether this relationship differs between tool-using and non-tool-using capuchins.…”

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“…Many of these extractive foraging behaviors are socially-learned (Barrett et al, 2017;Panger et al, 2002;Perry, 2011). Despite decades of studies across multiple field sites (Fedigan & Jack, 2012;Perry et al, 2012), habitual stone-tool use by white-faced capuchins has only been documented in one group of capuchins on the island of Coiba (Monteza-Moreno, Dogandžić, et al, 2020) and one group on the island of Jicarón (Barrett et al, 2018) in Coiba National Park, located ~30 km off the Pacific coast of Panama. Recently, stone tool use was also described in an urban population of Cebus albifrons in Ecuador (Araujo et al, 2021).…”

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Coupling of Coastal Activity with Tidal Cycles is Stronger in Tool-using Capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator)

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Crofoot

Alavi

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Terrestrial mammals exploiting coastal resources must cope with the challenge that resource availability and accessibility fluctuate with tidal cycles. Tool use can improve foraging efficiency and provide access to structurally protected resources that are otherwise unavailable (e.g., mollusks and fruits). To understand how variable accessibility of valuable resources shapes behavioral patterns, and whether tool use aids in the efficient exploitation of intertidal resources, we compared the relationship between tidal cycles and activity patterns of tool-using vs. non-tool-using groups of white-faced capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park, Panama. Although only a single group of capuchins on Jicarón uses tools, all coastal groups forage on intertidal resources. Using data from >3 years of camera trapping at varying distances from the coast, we found that capuchins on Jicarón showed increased coastal activity during specific parts of the tidal cycle, and that this relationship differed between tool-using and non-tool-using groups, as well as between seasons. Activity patterns of tool-using capuchins were more strongly and consistently tied to tidal cycles compared to non-tool-users, indicating that tool use might allow for more efficient exploitation of tidal resources. Our findings highlight the potential of tool use to aid niche expansion.

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“…As a result, there has been an increasing focus on identifying the mechanisms that non-human primates use to transfer skills between individuals to determine if some share evolutionary roots with those employed by humans [12,18,[20][21][22][23]. Extensive work on various primate species, including chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), macaques (macaca fascicularis) and capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus), indicate that the acquisition and transmission of tool-using behaviours are socially mediated [5,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Naive individuals often generate observational opportunities for themselves by maintaining proximity to tool users or showing interest in the residual materials associated with behaviour [24,25,31,32].…”

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Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques

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The pathways through which primates acquire skills are a central focus of cultural evolution studies. The roles of social and genetic inheritance processes in skill acquisition are often confounded by environmental factors. Hybrid macaques from Koram Island (Thailand) provide an opportunity to examine the roles of inheritance and social learning to skill acquisition within a single ecological setting. These hybrids are a cross between tool-using Burmese long-tailed ( Macaca fascicularis aurea ) and non-tool-using common long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis fascicularis ). This population provides an opportunity to explore the roles of social learning and inheritance processes while being able to exclude underlying ecological factors. Here, we investigate the roles of social learning and inheritance in tool use prevalence within this population using social network analysis and simulation. Agent-based modelling (ABM) is used to generate expectations for how social/asocial learning and inheritance structure the patterning in a social network. The results of the simulation show that various transmission mechanisms can be differentiated based on associations between individuals in a social network. The results provide an investigative framework for discussing tool use transmission pathways in the Koram social network. By combining ABM, network analysis, and behavioural data from the field we can investigate the roles social learning and inheritance play in tool acquisition of wild primates.

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White-Faced Capuchin, Cebus capucinus imitator, Hammerstone and Anvil Tool Use in Riparian Habitats on Coiba Island, Panama

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus)

A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus)

Coupling of Coastal Activity with Tidal Cycles is Stronger in Tool-using Capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator)

Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques

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