085 Are Monkeys Entering the Stone Age? | Brendan Barrett & Claudio Monteza
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Brendan and Claudio have found some Capuchin monkeys that are actually using stones as tools! Tune in to learn why this is so important, how rare this is, what this discovery means!
Check out this video to see some of Brendan and Claudios footage of capuchin monkeys actually using stone tools: https://youtu.be/8navgU8-tw0
Here are some links to additional papers to learn more:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181002
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10764-020-00156-5.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248420300294
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the 85th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:12.8 | I am Travis DeRose, the host, and this is the show where we interview interesting people. |
| 0:19.0 | And that's why I have on Brendan and Claudio this week. So we're |
| 0:23.9 | kind of figuring out if monkeys are entering in the stone age like we humans did. But we don't really |
| 0:31.0 | know for sure. But what we do know is that Claudio and Brendan are studying Capuchin monkeys |
| 0:36.5 | who are using stones as tools and they're |
| 0:39.9 | breaking open food and they have like a little anvil and all this kind of stuff. It's really, |
| 0:45.2 | really pretty damn interesting to hear about. So I hope you'll enjoy this episode with Brendan and |
| 0:50.1 | Claudio. We get to learn about what they're studying, what they're kind of seeing with these monkeys. And we also kind of talk about their experience of the studying and the actual |
| 0:59.9 | methods that they use and all that kind of stuff. So let's get to the episode. Here is Brendan |
| 1:05.8 | and Claudio right now. Boom, we're rolling. |
| 1:12.4 | What's up, Claudio? |
| 1:14.1 | Hey, how are you guys? |
| 1:15.5 | Doing good. |
| 1:16.3 | Thanks for being on here, Brendan. |
| 1:18.3 | Hello. |
| 1:19.8 | Stoke to talk to you guys. |
| 1:21.0 | You guys are doing some interesting work. |
| 1:24.1 | I mean, for sure, right? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, we're doing science. It's a fun time. |
| 1:30.4 | We're doing science. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, because I mean, well, I got hooked into you guys because |
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