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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Excited to share our new paper in Proc. R. Soc. B! 🐒🪨 We found that wild capuchin monkeys prioritize "social cues" (signs of previous use) over raw material quality when choosing nut-cracking tools. A big step in understanding cultural evolution in primates. #AnimalBehavior #primatology

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Finishing abstract submission for @efp2026.bsky.social I'll present data and discuss the capuchin monkey's tool use cultural diversity and conservation! #primatology @neoprego.org #NatGeoExplorer #primatologia

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Andreu Sánchez Megías @sanchezmegias.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We've had a super interesting talk by Gabriela Oliveira (@neoprego.org) about her research with capuchin monkey tool use in Brasil 🐒🪨🥔🥜🕷

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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We are looking for panelists! 🦧 If you are working in community-based conservation, (or know someone who is) apply to speak on our panel at PSGB's 2025 Field Skills Workshop. See 🧵 and video: youtube.com/shorts/YBJLr...

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

After a lot of work, delays and difficulties, we are almost finishing the new @neoprego.org research base at Serra da Capivara! 🏗️🚧🏠 This base will provide great stability for us to continue doing long-term research on the capuchin monkeys of Serra da Capivara and their incredible culture.

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We’re finishing our fieldwork season in Ubajara National Park 🇧🇷, where we collected🩸and other samples from the wild capuchin monkeys we study here. Now we have a lot of samples to analyse from genetics to health indicators. #capuchin #monkey #wildlife #primatologia @neoprego.org

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Can you see the snake near the nut-cracking anvil in the first 🌌? That is one of the dangers for capuchin 🐒 when going to the ground to use tools. In our new paper, we describe a snake attack on a capuchin in Ubajara Park 🇧🇷 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @neoprego.org @tati-valenca.bsky.social

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 30/03/2025

Acabamos de lançar os nossos guias de observação se macacos-prego da Serra da Capivara e Ubajara. Os PDFs podem ser baixados no site e distribuídos gratuitamente. neoprego.org/2025/03/29/g... @tfalotico.bsky.social @tati-valenca.bsky.social

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 23/03/2025

This weekend, we had our first CapCult Project meeting at Ubajara National Park. We brought the team from Serra da Capivara to learn about the environment and the monkeys and share information with the local research team.

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Ótima repostagem do @reinaldojlopes.bsky.social sobre os macacos-prego e sua cultura de uso de ferramentas. Várias pesquisas da nossa equipe da @neoprego.org são citadas lá. #primatologia #insidenatgeo #ciencia #primates 🧪🐒 super.abril.com.br/ciencia/a-cu...

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A cultura dos macacos-pregos

Novos estudos revelam que eles são capazes de comportamentos avançados, como usar ferramentas, preparar insetos antes de comê-los e transferir conhecimen...

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

What if you gave stones from around the world to nut-cracking capuchin monkeys in São Paulo? @tfalotico.bsky.social, @tomosproffitt.bsky.social & team tested rocks from Olduvai hominin and Thai macaque sites. Nut stability on the anvil was the key to success 🧪🏺🐒🥜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A figure from a preprint paper by O'Malley et al. showing anvils of different stone materials before and after their use by capuchin monkeys to crack nuts. The number of hits by a monkey is shown for each anvil, ranging from 84 to 1758 hits. Only one anvil, made of thick concrete and labeled (b), is intact afterwards. The others, made of siltstone, quartzite, sandstone, thin concrete and ironstone are all broken apart to some degree after their use. The paper is titled 'Material matters: raw material influences stone tool performance in capuchin monkeys'

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 18/12/2024

Essa pessoa fará parte, por pelo menos um ano, da equipe que estuda a população de macacos-prego do Parque Nacional de Ubajara (CE). O início das atividades está previsto para fevereiro/2025. ‼️Terão preferência na seleção pessoas do Ceará ou do Nordeste, nessa ordem.‼️

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 18/12/2024

🐵A Neoprego está procurando uma pessoa para fazer parte da equipe do projeto CapCult. O projeto é coordenado pelo @tfalotico.bsky.social e é parte do Wildlife Intelligence Project, da National Geographic Society. Veja mais detalhes aqui: bit.ly/neopregovaga2025

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Vaga para bolsista 2025

Abrimos seleção para bolsista no projeto CapCult para 2025

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our “field table” used in the activity of capturing and collecting blood from the monkeys, which we carried out last week. It was the first time we did this type of collection at Serra da Capivara, in this case we want to analyze the DNA of this population with unique behaviors! 🧪🐒 @neoprego.org

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV

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ips-primatenews.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Primate peeps assemble!! Some great starter packs out there, so we figured we join the fun and start one for organisations and fieldsites. Help us find folk & let us know who we missed! 🧪🦊🐒 go.bsky.app/NK7z2st

Starter pack with primate organisation icons

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I'm still adding to this but thought I'd share my starter pack for primatology!

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Back to Ubajara National park 🇧🇷. We’re looking for the known inividuals of capuchin monkeys and checking the new guys after more than a year. We’re going to be following them for a long time now, as part of the CapCult project and Wildlife Intelligence Group. @neoprego.org #insidenatgeo

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Now is the peak of the cashew season at Serra da Capivara (northeastern Brazil). Capuchin monkeys here eat the apple, and can also open the nuts with stone tools to access the nutritious endosperm! 🧪🐒 #primatology #capuchin #monkey @neoprego.org

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Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D. @ktcapuchin.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Check out these awesome #primate items from @neoprego.org! I just bought a t-shirt & journals.👕📒🖊️ neoprego.printify.me/products (this helps support #conservation research by the Neotropical Primates Research Group: neoprego.org) Obrigado, @tfalotico.bsky.social et al.! 🙏😀🐒🇧🇷🐵🌴

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Ape Shit the zine for primates @monkeywire.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The Captive Primate Safety Act would protect monkeys from the US pet trade. In recognition, we’ll be highlighting ways humanity’s cousins have resisted captivity over the next few weeks, starting with monkey attacks. Chimp attacks get headlines, but monkeys easily win the numbers game. (1/4)

Black-and-white half-toned photo of a macaque bearing its teeth with the headlines superimposed "NOT YOUR PET (H.R.8186 / S.4206). This is the image Monkeywire is using to promote the proposed Captive Primate Safety Act.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I know we're all up to our ears in political activity, but this bill really matters, and it's the sort that might well die for lack of attention. It would prohibit the private ownership of primates. As the thread says, like many species, primates are cute when they're small, but not so much later.

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 12/09/2024

For some reason I was unable to tag @tati-valenca.bsky.social in the previous post, but here she is!

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 12/09/2024

Não é nossa especialidade, mas pelo que conversamos com outros pesquisadores, parece que onças da Caatinga são mesmo menores e mais magras. Todas as 🐆 que registramos nessa área são magrelas.

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 12/09/2024

Our first video here is the cougar recorded by camera-trap resting on one of the capuchin monkeys nut-cracking sites at Ubajara Park 🇧🇷. This is part of our member Tati Valença PhD project to measure predation pressure on the monkeys’ behavior. #bigcats #primates #natgeo #usp #cienciabrasileira

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Congrats @henriquerufo.bsky.social for the best global south presenter award at the #CES2024Durham. 👏🏼👏🏼 @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @neoprego.org

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Henrique Rufo @henriquerufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Talking about #capuchinmonkeys at Cultural Conference in Durham #CES2024durham 🐵❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Amazing experience! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @neoprego.org #ces2024 #clturalevolution #sociallearning

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Tiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Presenting the CapCult project results to Susan Perry and Kevin Lala at the meeting of the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social in Durham. Nice to meet a lot of amazing people here! #ces2024durham #cienciabrasileira #primatology @neoprego.org

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Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @durhamdcerc.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Finally we have Henrique Rufo on innovation, diffusion and generalisation of probe tool use in tufted capuchins #CES2024Durham @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 05/09/2024

🎓 Esse registro faz parte do doutorado da Tati Valença sobre a ecologia da cultura animal e como a percepção do risco de predação afeta o uso de ferramentas. Ela acompanhou não só as populações de macacos, mas tb a presença e a atividade dos potenciais predadores nos locais de quebra de cocos.

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 05/09/2024

🐆 Essa suçuarana deitada em uma das bigornas dos macacos-prego do Parque Nacional de Ubajara é o gatinho mais fofo que você vai ver hoje! #cats #bigcats #cienciabr #cienciabrasileira

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 04/09/2024

No caso de adultos ou juvenis mais velhos, se ele não conseguir acompanhar o grupo, será deixado para trás em algum momento. A sobrevivência depende muito do tipo de machucado. Mas mesmo casos graves (ex. animal perdendo membros) há vários casos de primatas sobrevivendo e se mantendo no grupo.

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 04/09/2024

Sim, é raro, mas as vezes eles caem. Quanto se machucam, por qualquer razão, a reação depende da idade. Se for um filhote que ainda é carregado, ele pode ser carregado mais ou receber mais catação. Um adulto pode ser alvo de mais atenção caso se comporte diferente, mas não será ajudado diretamente.

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 02/09/2024

We now have a t-shirt store that ships to the US and EU! Check our designs! neoprego.printify.me

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 02/09/2024

Sabia que agora temos uma loja de camisetas com temas de biologia e primatologia? Todo o lucro vai para os projetos da ONG. Venha conhecer! reserva.ink/neoprego

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 27/08/2024

We now have a t-shirt store that ships to the US and EU! Have you seen some of our designs? neoprego.printify.me

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 27/06/2024

Our members @HPRufo and @tfalotico at the #ABS2024 meeting, presenting research on capuchin monkeys! 🐒 @AnimBehSociety

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 19/06/2024

New field shirt for the CapCult project team. Inspired by the capuchin fur.🐒 We wonder if it’s going to be easier to follow the 🐒 wearing those! @HPRufo is already incorporating his inner capuchin! 😂

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 12/02/2024

Todas as mulheres podem. E todas devem ter garantia de segurança, respeito e condições dignas para exercerem seus trabalhos. Conheça algumas das pesquisadoras e colaboradoras da Neoprego. #mulheresnaciencia #mulheresnacienciabr

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 12/02/2024

Hoje é celebrado o dia internacional das mulheres e meninas na ciência! Ciência é tb lugar de mulheres. E fazer ciência pode incluir ir para campo, seguir macacos, andar no mato, subir morros, abrir trilhas e carregar equipamentos pesados. (continua) #mulheresnaciencia

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 17/11/2023

Você sabia que nossa coleção de camisetas não tem apenas macacos-prego? O Alouatta caraya, espécie chamada popularmente de bugio-preto ou guariba-preto, também está estrelando nossa coleção de macacos neotropicais! Todo a renda retorna para a...

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 16/10/2023

Todas as camisetas são 100% algodão e de ótima qualidade. Como a loja é do tipo on-demand, não temos estoque. Cada camiseta é impressa conforme os pedidos. As compras podem ser parceladas em até 6x sem juros e a partir de 4 camisetas o frete é grátis!

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Neotropical Primates Research Group @neoprego.org · 16/10/2023

Agora temos uma lojinha de camisetas da Neoprego! Além das nossas camisetas básicas, temos uma coleção com estampas de ilustrações de diversas espécies de macacos. reserva.ink/neoprego Todo o lucro das vendas retornará para a NeoPReGo.

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