Response to changes in food palatability in tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella
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Capuchin monkeys responded to a flavour change in familiar food in the first session in which the change took place. Within each phase, consumption did not differ across sessions. In the Social condition, the monkeys did not appear to take advantage of the behaviour of group members. Behaviours carried out to prevent another monkey from eating the Pepper Food were not observed, even in the mother-infant pair. The pattern of responses displayed by the monkeys was very different from that characterizing the phenomenon of food aversion learning.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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Infant tufted capuchin monkeys' behaviour with novel foods: opportunism, not selectivity
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A study of infant tufted capuchin monkeys concludes that their acceptance of novel foods is not reliant on socially provided information about palatability. The investigation, designed to show how capuchin monkeys select food, presented the subjects with two kinds of food under controlled conditions. It was found that novel foods were not treated with caution and the monkeys failed to seek information from others before eating them, although interest in the food of others increased with age.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
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Audience effects on food calls in captive brown capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella
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The underlying variation in the food call and the different ways that an audience could affect it in a controlled experimental setting is focused. Audience and food quantity were manipulated to determine whether female brown capuchins gave food calls differentially depending on the caller's position in the hierarchy, the composition of its audience and audience size.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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