Capuchin monkey cracks open a nut (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Capuchin monkey cracks open a nut

Caption

This capuchin monkey cracks open a cashew nut using the "experimental stones". It achieves this by placing the nut on a soft anvil and striking it with a hard hammerstone.

Credit

© Tiago Falótico

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To be used to report on the research by Johanna Henke-von der Malsburg et al. (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2026) only.

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