Luciana Massaro
Email:
luciana.massaro@istc.cnr.it
Telephone:
+39 06 3221437
Address:
Via Aldrovandi 16B - 00197 Roma
Profile
Position:
Research Fellow
Keywords:
- Factors affecting tool use in wild bearded capuchin (Cebus libidinosus);
Research
Factors affecting tool use in wild bearded capuchins (Cebus libidinosus). Contemporary optimization models in behaviour suggest animals in different foraging situations act to optimize benefits of foraging and minimize costs. In the case of nut-cracking by wild bearded capuchins, lifting the heavy stone and striking the nut may entail costs in several currencies and if the stone is not already at an anvil there are additional costs related to transporting the stone to the anvil. If the monkeys are attentive to any or all of these latter costs, they should act to minimize them during nut-cracking.
Publications
Journal articles | |
| 2012 | |
Polizzi Di Sorrentino E., Schino G., Massaro L., Visalberghi E., Aureli F. Between-group hostility affects within-group interactions in tufted capuchin monkeys. In: Animal Behaviour, vol. 83 (2) pp. 445 - 451. Elsevier, 2012.   | |
Abstracts | |
| 2009 | |
| Massaro L., Polizzi Di Sorrentino E., Schino G., Visalberghi E., Aureli F. Visibility between neighbouring groups of capuchin monkeys: influence on intragroup aggression and social relationships. Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of the European Federation of Primatologists. Zurich (Switzerland). In: Folia Primatologica. Abstract, vol. 80 (2) p. 166. , 2009. | |
| Polizzi Di Sorrentino E., Massaro L., Schino G., Visalberghi E., Aureli F. Do intergroup interactions influence the nature of intra-group social relationship? An experiment with tufted capuchin monkeys. Proceedings of the XIX Congress of the Italian Primatological Association. Asti (Italy). In: Folia Primatologica. Abstract, vol. 80 (6) p. 377. , 2009. | |