How amazingly intelligent! I had never heard of this behavior before. The way they gather the nuts up, prepare them, and let them ripen is borderline agriculture.
@@sewermachine1371 That's editing, we never see what they are throwing rocks at, if there is anything they are aiming for at all. We get a video of them throwing rocks, then a cut in close up of a big cat from their video library. Your mind fills in the gap.
@T B: Yes, it is. They are able to plan ahead and follow through after the nuts dry sufficiently that they can eat them. There are several steps to this activity.
A real production/supply chain. Find the ripe nuts. Harvest them. Remove the husks. Put them to dry in the sun. Start the timer. Scout for nut-cracking locations and anvils, preferably with a quick escape route to a location with lots of missiles, in case a predator tries to sneak on us Gather appropriate stone-hammers. On/or before timeout, check for dried nuts. Transport the dried nuts to the cracking location(s) Crack nuts, teaching the young ones at the same time. Enjoy!
That nutcracking school looks extremely disorganized. Where are the desks, attendance lists, and multiple-choice quizzes? Frankly, it looks as if there's no standardized curriculum at all. Really, how are those youngsters supposed to grow up to be productive members of monkey society if they spend all their time just messing around? The monkey world doesn't need thinkers and doers, it needs obedient little monkeys who can sit still and do what they're told.
One pet Capuchin after watching his owner make coffee over and over again thought it was a piece of cake! He proceeded to burn the house down around himself.
How Sir David Attenborough narrates is as amazing as those cappuchin monkeys who skillfully collect ripen fruits, process them and crush them with stones brought down from the hills ! Isn't it near human being?
Correct. Our evolutionary line branched off around 6.5 million years ago. If you look at how long there has been life on Earth, that number is really put into perspective. To whit; 6.5 million years is comparable to a WEEK of time when you put in next to how long life on earth has existed, 3.6 BILLION years. It really does make you think, what would happen if we gave these wonderful creatures another 6.5 odd million years of un-interrupted evolution, just what kind of "animal" would we get?
I just can’t see these little guys as monkeys…I can’t Lol….opening these nuts shows timing. “Tanning” nuts to make them easier to open..so they have and work by a schedule and they use and find tools…they don’t just grab any rock they are looking for THE rock to use for opening nuts…it’s crazy how smart/intelligent they are
