Baby vampire bat adopted
by mom’s best friend
Confined
Isolation led white-faced
capuchin monkeys
into the Stone Age.
July 21, 2020
Coiba
After 14 thousand years of living in confinement and without the threat of predators, the white-faced capuchin monkeys on the Coiba National Park islands have begun to exhibit behaviors that have not been recorded in the mainland populations. For example, they are highly terrestrial and have learned to use stones as tools. Listen to doctoral student in animal behavior and former STRI fellow, Claudio Monteza, tell us this story.
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