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IMAGE: Stone tools are used for digging, seed pounding, and stone-on-stone percussion. The monkeys can serve as a model to help understand how humans evolved to use tools view more
Credit: Tiago Falótico/EACH-USP
A group of researchers including Tiago Falótico, a Brazilian primatologist at the University of São Paulo s School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH-USP), archeologists at Spain s Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) and University College London in the UK, and an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, have published an article in the
Journal of Archeological Science: Reports describing an analysis of stone tools used by bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) that inhabit Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí State, Brazil. It is the first systematic study to characterize the tools used by capuchin monkeys living in the wild.
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While biennials and festivals are once again being pushed back as successive waves of COVID-19 cases catalyse more lockdowns globally, announcements on curators and themes of future events continue unabated.
In Brazil, organisers of the Mercosul Biennial announced Marcello Dantas as taking the reins of the 2022 edition. Dantas’s last biennial experience was in Vancouver, in 2014, but since the curator has become known for a series of immensely popular solo touring shows for artists in Latin America, including ambitious surveys for Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Ai’s 2019 retrospective in Brazil, his first in the South America, was the most visited exhibition globally that year with 1.1 million people filing through stops in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba. At Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro,
Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change
Researchers looking at the abundance of insect-eating birds in a pristine patch of forest deep in the Brazilian Amazon have seen populations of dozens of species decline over the past 35 years.
The remoteness of the site and the still-intact tree cover rule out direct human activity as a factor for the population declines, with researchers attributing the phenomenon to the warmer and more intense droughts caused by climate change, which in turn puts stress on the birds and their food sources.
The finding calls into question the idea that an area protected from human activity is sufficient to guarantee the conservation of its biodiversity.