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Brazilian Capuchin Monkeys

Monkeys in Brazil 'have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least'

New archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian capuchins have been using stone tools to crack open cashew nuts for at least 700 years. Researchers say, to date, they have found the earliest archaeological examples of monkey tool use outside of Africa. Ref. Source 2r.

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Monkeys aren't given the credit they deserve and if left alone for a million years they might well be part of the planet of the apes.

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Monkeys are seen making stone flakes so humans are 'not unique' after all

Researchers have observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally creating flakes that share many of the characteristics of those produced by early Stone Age hominins. The difference is that the capuchins' flakes are not intentional tools for cutting and scraping, but seem to be the by-product of hammering or 'percussive behavior' that the monkeys engage in to extract minerals or lichen from the stones. Ref. Source 1k.

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Give them another million years and they will probably evolve to be just like primitive man but humankind won't give them that chance and we would probably of blown ourselves up by then.

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Yellow fever killing thousands of monkeys in Brazil

In a vulnerable forest in southeastern Brazil, where the air was once thick with the guttural chatter of brown howler monkeys, there now exists silence. Yellow fever, a virus carried by mosquitoes and endemic to Africa and South America, has robbed the private, federally-protected reserve of its brown howlers in an unprecedented wave of death that has swept through the region since late 2016, killing thousands of monkeys. Ref. Source 4x.