Study shows how social bonds help tool-using monkeys learn new skills
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Study shows how social bonds help tool-using monkeys learn new skills

Anthropologists and psychologists have studied wild monkeys' problem-solving for food to better understand how social dynamics can influence behavior and learning. The research team, led by Durham University's Department of Anthropology, studied two groups of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil's Serra da Capivara National Park.