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Spontaneous tool use and sensorimotor intelligence in Cebus compared with other monkeys and apes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Suzanne Chevalier-Skolnikoff
Affiliation:
Behavioral Biology Unit, California Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

Abstract

Spontaneous tool use and sensorimotor intelligence in Cebus were observed to determine whether tool use is discovered fortuitously and learned by trial-and-error or, rather, whether advanced sensorimotor abilities (experimentation and insight) are critical in its ontogeny and evolution.

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