Are capuchins really the most intelligent primates after humans and chimps? Dale Morris thinks so, and after watching them hunt co-operatively one morning, he set out to discover why. My first encounter with Latin American capuchin monkeys was a memorable experience, if not a particularly pleasant one. The sun had yet to rise when an exceedingly high-pitched shriek jolted me awake. Slipping out of bed, I padded across the wooden floor of the Nancite biological research station in northern Costa Ricaand leaned out on to the windowsill to get a better look at who or what was causing the commotion.
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