The behaviour of capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella , with novel food: the role of social context
@article{Visalberghi1995TheBO, title={The behaviour of capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella , with novel food: the role of social context}, author={Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy}, journal={Animal Behaviour}, year={1995}, volume={49}, pages={1089-1095} }
Social influences affect individual responsiveness to key features of the environment, such as food. Galef (1993,Anim. Behav.,46,257-265) has predicted that social facilitation should affect food choice more powerfully when the food is novel than when it is familiar. This prediction was tested in monkeys. Eleven capuchin monkeys were tested individually (Individual condition) and in a group (Social condition) with eight familiar foods presented simultaneously (experiment 1). In experiment 2…
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Social context and consumption of unfamiliar foods by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) over repeated encounters
- BiologyAmerican journal of primatology
- 1998
It is concluded that foods remain unfamiliar to capuchins only for the first few encounters, social facilitation of consumption of unfamiliar foods is of limited duration, and individuals consumed equivalent amounts of an unfamiliar food when they repeatedly encountered it alone or in the presence of groupmates.
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The results support the view that social influences increase acceptance of novel foods or synchronize feeding activities, and foster the individual's diet acquisition, in tufted capuchins, Cebus apella.
Seeing group members eating a familiar food enhances the acceptance of novel foods in capuchin monkeys
- Psychology, BiologyAnimal Behaviour
- 2000
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Infant tufted capuchin monkeys’ behaviour with novel foods: opportunism, not selectivity
- Medicine, PsychologyAnimal Behaviour
- 1997
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Social communication with food in captive common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus )
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- 2017
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- Psychology, BiologyAnimal Cognition
- 2001
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- Psychology, BiologyFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
- 2022
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Social contact influences the response of infant marmosets towards novel food
- Psychology, MedicineAnimal Behaviour
- 2006
Response Toward Novel Foods and Novel Objects in Wild Cebus apella
- BiologyInternational Journal of Primatology
- 2004
Responsibility to novelty in a group of 25–30 wild tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) in Iguazü National Park (Argentina) is investigated, finding capuchin responses were less responsive toward novel objects than toward novel foods; however, although cautious, they ate small amounts of the novel foods.
Social sources of information about foods are apparently important in the development of diet patterns in young rabbits and rats (
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