Why Capuchins Monkeys (Cebus apella) Have the Patience of a Saint? A Comparative Analysis of Five Primate Species' Performance in the Intertemporal Choice Task (Abstract in rivista)

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  • Why Capuchins Monkeys (Cebus apella) Have the Patience of a Saint? A Comparative Analysis of Five Primate Species' Performance in the Intertemporal Choice Task (Abstract in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2011-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • V. Focaroli (a,b); F. De Petrillo (a,b); F. Paglieri (a); E. Addessi (a) (2011)
    Why Capuchins Monkeys (Cebus apella) Have the Patience of a Saint? A Comparative Analysis of Five Primate Species' Performance in the Intertemporal Choice Task
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  • V. Focaroli (a,b); F. De Petrillo (a,b); F. Paglieri (a); E. Addessi (a) (literal)
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  • ID_PUMA: /cnr.istc/2011-B6-008. - Area di valutazione 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, psicologiche e pedagogiche. - Abstract presentato al 20th Meeting of the Italian Primatological Association, Bussolengo, 10-13 aprile 2011. - Rivista pubblicata anche in ed. online (ISSN 1421-9980) (literal)
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  • a) Istituto di scienze e tecnologie della cognizione CNR; b) Sapienza Università di Roma (literal)
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  • Why Capuchins Monkeys (Cebus apella) Have the Patience of a Saint? A Comparative Analysis of Five Primate Species' Performance in the Intertemporal Choice Task (literal)
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  • The evolution of skills such as reciprocal altruism, planning, and cooperation requires the inhibition of prepotent responses. Both human and non-human animals often face decisions between options available at different times, but whereas humans apparently tolerate delays of weeks or even months, animals tolerate delays of just a few seconds. However, delay tolerance can vary across species and it is unclear if phylogenetic relatedness, feeding ecology, social structure, or metabolic rate account for this difference. To disentangle these hypotheses we evaluated temporal preferences in capuchin monkeys. Specifically, we presented 16 capuchins with choices between a small immediate reward and a large delayed reward employing an adjusting delay procedure, i.e. varying the delay associated to the larger option across sessions until subjects were indifferent between the two options. Then, we compared their performance with that of the other primate species tested so far with the same procedure. Overall, capuchins showed a considerable delay tolerance, and - as in humans - females showed a greater delay tolerance than males, possibly because of females' less opportunistic foraging style. Furthermore, capuchins performed significantly better than closely related species as tamarins and marmosets, and their performance was not significantly different from that of bonobos and chimpanzees. Capuchins' tool use abilities might explain their comparatively high preference for the delayed option. Thus, our results shed light on the evolutionary origins of delay tolerance supporting the feeding ecology hypothesis. Funded by ISTC-CNR and American Society of Primatologists. (literal)
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