Small vertebrate consumption by capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus): Insights into the human predatory pattern (VIDEO)
Caption
A hunting event of Type II (collective). Four young capuchins hidden in a bush attack an Iguana (Iguana iguana) passing nearby. One grasps and detaches the far end of the iguana tail. Meat transfer should have occurred while the capuchins were into the bush. However, it is important to note that sooner or later we observed all four of them eating parts of the iguana.
Credit
This video is taken from the documentary “The bearded capuchin monkeys of Fazenda Boa Vista” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ojU43JgpYo) by Elisabetta Visalberghi and Alessandro Albani. The footage was not recorded during this study, but it illustrates what the authors reported and extracts of it were included in the supplementary information of the Carvalho et al., (PLOS One, 2026) study under the CC-BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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