Let’s Discover The Stone Age In The Monkeys
Many primates use tools, and although humans have achieved great mastery in doing so, starting during the Stone Age, it appears that some apes are also succeeding.
Specifically, some examples of cappuccino cebo. Here is some information on the Stone Age in monkeys.
The Stone Age in Chimpanzees
Various monkeys are found in the Stone Age, or rather various primates, as some are great anthropoids. Archeology devoted to other primates is beginning to flourish, and many researchers have been studying the tools used by chimpanzees and other African apes for hundreds of years.
Many of these tools are destined to disappear; an example is the Fongoli monkeys who hunt with wooden spears that are difficult to study.
However, the stone is much more durable, because it allows to highlight the origin of the use of stone tools in these animals.
In a 2007 study it was noted that chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast have been using tools for at least 4300 years, indicating that while humans were in the Bronze Age, they were already experimenting with the lithic industry.
The Stone Age in the other primates
Other primates reached the Stone Age before the Capuchin cebo. One example is the cynomolus macaque, which uses stones to crack the shells of various mollusks in some Asian countries.
This behavior also seems to extend back in time, although only evidence ranging from 50 to 100 years ago has been found in the case of this macaque, indicating that some monkeys have made it to the Stone Age a few decades ago .
However, in Latin America it has been discovered that some monkeys have reached the Stone Age: we are talking about the cornetto cebo, present in Brazil for more than 700 years.
New monkeys have reached the Stone Age
However, the news we want to tell you about is that some monkeys have reached the Stone Age now, in this era.
It is the capuchin cebo, a species of primate that can be found in South America.
Precisely we are talking about a population living in the Panama forest, in particular in the Coiba National Park.
In 2017, cameras were installed in the park to study the behavior of these animals, as they appear to be a different population from other specimens of the same species.
Videos show these monkeys using tools more and more frequently. It attracts attention because it is the first population of this species to behave in this way.
It is curious that on the same island there are groups of Capuchin monkeys that do not use stones, so they have an advantage over the rest.
It is believed that another herd of the same species could join this new culture of the Capuchin monkeys living in Panama.
