Chimp & See Talk

Tail-drinking capuchins

  • Batfan by Batfan

    I've just been watching a programme called Wild Brazil and one of the things it focused on was a group of capuchins which, during the dry season, dipped their tails into water that had collected inside rotten trees and then drank it. Ingenious! Has this type of behaviour ever been seen in monkeys on any of the C&S sites?

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  • Snorticus by Snorticus in response to Batfan's comment.

    I don't think we have seen any of the monkeys doing that so far. Very cool that capuchins adapted to the dry season like that!

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  • MimiA by MimiA scientist, moderator

    very cool @batfan - i haven't heard of that before at all! Those clever capuchins have so much to show us 😄

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