Monkey Business

Do the quirks of capuchins make them creatures with culture?

It’s not easy keeping up with pint-size monkeys in the jungle. The teams of researchers who’ve been doing it for the past 14 years have had to put up with a lot: barreling face-first into spider webs before sunrise, hacking through dense, bug-infested undergrowth, getting droppings in their hair, and being heckled by cantankerous little monkeys called capuchins.