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Lastly, our study provides insight into potential hominin behavior on coasts. Tool use on coastal resources is thought to have been...

Lastly, our study provides insight into potential hominin behavior on coasts. Tool use on coastal resources is thought to have been important in human evolution, but evidence is hardly preserved. We provide a first example of needed comparative studies to fill this gap (10/10)

Our findings suggest that tool use might allow capuchins to exploit intertidal resources more efficiently, which highlights the potential of...

Our findings suggest that tool use might allow capuchins to exploit intertidal resources more efficiently, which highlights the potential of tool use to permit niche expansion. Plus, it is interesting given how tool use is surprisingly common in island ecosystems.. (9/10)

Additionally, tool-using capuchins showed a stronger and more consistent coupling of coastal activity to the tidal cycles than...

Additionally, tool-using capuchins showed a stronger and more consistent coupling of coastal activity to the tidal cycles than non-tool-users. Tool use allows access to more resources (including protected ones like crabs) and speeds up processing times (8/10)

Remember that the timing of low tide shifts every day: so this pattern can't have arisen from capuchins being at the coast...

Remember that the timing of low tide shifts every day: so this pattern can't have arisen from capuchins being at the coast intermittently or only at certain times a day! (7/10)

How large of an impact do these fluctuating resources have on capuchin activity? Using data from >3 years of camera trapping, we found...

How large of an impact do these fluctuating resources have on capuchin activity? Using data from >3 years of camera trapping, we found that for both tool-users and non-tool-users, coastal activity coincided with specific parts of the tidal cycle (usually low tide) (6/10)

Eating intertidal resources is tricky: tides may be predictable but the timing of low and high tide shifts each day. While the resources...

Eating intertidal resources is tricky: tides may be predictable but the timing of low and high tide shifts each day. While the resources here are valuable, their limited and fluctuating accessibility makes it hard to exploit them efficiently. (5/10)

This provides unique circumstances to compare tool-using and non-tool-using animals living in the same habitat. In our study, we used this...

This provides unique circumstances to compare tool-using and non-tool-using animals living in the same habitat. In our study, we used this opportunity to study exploitation of intertidal resources, which capuchins on Jicarón forage on with and without tools 🦀🐌🥥 (4/10)

What is so special about these capuchins is that some regularly use stone tools for foraging. Not only is habitual tool use very rare in...

What is so special about these capuchins is that some regularly use stone tools for foraging. Not only is habitual tool use very rare in the Cebus genus, the tool-using behavior appears to only occur in one group on this island (and has persisted for over 10 years!) (3/10)

The main stars of this study are capuchins living on Jicarón island in Coiba National Park, Panama. (the other stars are my co-authors Meg...

The main stars of this study are capuchins living on Jicarón island in Coiba National Park, Panama. (the other stars are my co-authors Meg Crofoot, Shauhin Alavi, Sylvia Garza, Evelyn Del Rosario-Vargas, Kate Tiedeman, Claudio Monteza, and Brendan Barrett) (2/10)

Just in time to be an early Christmas present to myself; the first chapter of my PhD is now out as a preprint...

Just in time to be an early Christmas present to myself; the first chapter of my PhD is now out as a preprint (https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.22.521421v1).

We investigated the relationship between activity and tidal cycles in some very special island-living white faced capuchins… a🧵 (1/10)