The Panamanian White-faced Capuchin is a highly intelligent and adaptable monkey of Central American forests, known for tool use, complex foraging techniques, and coalition-based social politics within troops. It is the capuchin most familiar to wildlife observers in Costa Rica and Panama, boldly approaching tourist groups in national parks. Capuchins have been documented using stones to crack open crabs and shellfish.
Habitat
Tropical and subtropical forests of Central America and Panama
Diet
Fruit, insects, small vertebrates, and shellfish
How common
Very rare
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