H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

TechnoC-Cap · Technological Cultures in Capuchin Monkeys: an Archeological and Behavioural exploration

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-01-01 → 2022-12-10
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 473 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Технологичните култури при капуциновите маймуни се изследват чрез наблюдение на използването на инструменти в дивата природа. Това помага да се разбере как еволюцията на техническата интелигентност и опитът влияят върху способността за решаване на физически задачи.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

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Резултати накратко

Technological Cultures in Capuchin Monkeys: an Archeological and Behavioural exploration

Cultural variation and tool use are key factors in humans’ adaptation to their environment. Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are an emerging model for the study of cultural and technological evolution in early humans. However, their behavioral diversity remains little known, mostly due to the difficulties of investigating behavior in wild populations not habituated to the presence of researchers. According to the “technical intelligence hypothesis”, populations of the same species may experience different selective pressures depending on how much they rely on tools for their survival. This predicts that individuals from populations that use more tools would be more effective at solving novel experimental tasks requiring physical cognition skills associated with tool use. However, ontogenetic individual experience, personality traits and social interactions may also influence performance in physical cognition tasks. These factors will be particularly relevant if physical cognition experiments are to be carried out as a field experiment under natural conditions. Aims of this action have been: 1. establishing an innovative, multidisciplinary protocol to map tool use traditions in unhabituated wild robust capuchins, applying methods from field primatology, experimental ethology, and archeology; 2. testing the effect of individual traits and lifetime experience with tool use on performance in physical cognition tasks.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Animal cultures represent an often neglected layer of biological diversity and a powerful model for the study of human evolution. Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are emerging as a new model for cultural and technological evolution in humans, phylogenetically independent from the established chimpanzee model. Available data suggest a great potential for cultural diversity across the robust capuchins range, especially within the tool use domain. However, capuchins’ behavioural diversity remains so far mostly unknown. This fellowship will establish an innovative, multidisciplinary protocol to map tool use traditions across space and time in wild capuchins not habituated to human presence.The training through research activity will allow me, a field primatologist, to acquire essential skills to describe animal tool use from an archeological perspective and strengthen my ability to conceive, design and apply behavioral experiments. Specifically, I propose to: - use environmental surveys and camera trap monitoring to describe tool use behaviour at a new site in terms of behavioural repertoire, tool selection and tool transport; - test and apply a new approach, based on field experiments, to detect tool use behaviours in primate populations not habituated to human presence; - excavate tool use sites to trace the temporal development of technological traditions at a previously unstudied geographical location with unhabituated capuchins.This research will i) extend, for the first time, the field of primate archeology to unhabituated populations of non-human tool-using primates and ii) serve as a platform to launch a large-scale, multidisciplinary exploration of technological and cultural diversity in robust capuchins. This will ultimately allow to tackle the ecological and cultural drivers of behavioural diversity in capuchins and to shed light into evolutionary scenarios about human cultural evolution and the emergence of tool use.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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