Wild capuchin monkeys don’t thoughtlessly grab any handy piece of stone to crack open hard-shelled nuts at snack time. These slender, agile primates select the best tool for the job, a new study finds ...

When it comes to cracking nuts, wild bearded capuchin monkeys are more skilled than anyone had given them credit for, according to researchers. When it comes to cracking nuts, wild bearded capuchin ...

Capuchin monkeys are currently 3.000 years into their own 'Stone Age' as a study reveals 450 generations of the primate have bean using rocks to open cashew nuts. Archaeologists in Brazil found that ...

It's not just hardware junkies who want the right tool for the job. It's monkeys, too. In what may be a modern-day snapshot of humanity's technological infancy, researchers have observed wild capuchin ...

Monkeys are more skilful in using tools to crack open their favourite nuts than we thought. In addition to breaking nuts open with stones and copying more experienced individuals, they exercise a ...

Capuchin monkeys of the species Sapajus libidinosus are very resourceful. At Serra da Capivara National Park in the Brazilian state of Piauí, these monkeys use stones and branches as tools to process ...

This is a selection of our favourite images from the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. Cracking this nut will take strength, skill and a grasp of physics – and the capuchin is equal to ...

When it comes to cracking nuts, wild bearded capuchin monkeys are more skilled than anyone had given them credit for, according to researchers who report new findings in the Cell Press journal Current ...