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Tiny primate that runs organized crime rings for fruit and status.
means A small, highly intelligent New World monkey known for its brain-to-body ratio, tool use, and social cunning.
from Named by Spanish and Portuguese explorers after the Capuchin friars, whose brown robes and pointed hoods resembled the monkey's dark cap of fur against lighter coloring. The friars themselves took their name from 'cappuccio,' Italian for hood — the same root that later gave us cappuccino, supposedly for its matching shade of brown. So the monkey, the coffee, and the monks all share one hooded ancestor-word.
- tool use
- crack nuts with chosen anvil stones for generations
- culture
- different troops have different handshake-like greeting rituals
- name origin
- named for hooded robes of Capuchin friars
- brain size
- largest brain-to-body ratio of any monkey