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BOOK LIST | Manipulative Monkeys: The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal

By Science News

Primatologists follow the social lives of these big-brained Costa Rican monkeys.

Harvard Univ. Press, 2008 358 p. $45

MANIPULATIVE MONKEYS

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