Editing Capuchin monkey (section)

=== Diet ===

The capuchin monkey feeds on a vast range of food types, and is more varied than other monkeys in the family [[Cebidae]]. They are [[omnivores]], and consume a variety of plant parts such as leaves, flower and fruit, seeds, pith, woody tissue, sugarcane, bulb, and exudates, as well as [[arthropods]], [[molluscs]], a variety of [[vertebrates]], and even [[primates]].<ref name="Izawa K 1979">{{cite journal | last1 = Izawa | first1 = K | year = 1979 | title = Foods and feeding behaviour of wild black-capped capuchin (''Cebus apella'') | journal = Primates | volume = 20 | pages = 57–76 | doi=10.1007/bf02373828| s2cid = 30424050 }}</ref> Recent findings of old stone tools in Capuchin habitats have suggested that recently the Capuchins have switched from small nuts, such as cashews, to larger and harder nuts. Capuchins have also been observed to be particularly good at catching frogs.<ref name="Izawa K 1979"/> They are characterized as innovative and extreme foragers because of their ability to acquire sustenance from a wide collection of unlikely food, which may assure their survival in habitats with extreme food limitation.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Fragaszy, Dorothy M. |author2=Visalberghi, Elisabetta |author3=Fedigan, Linda M. |title=The Complete Capuchin: The Biology of the Genus ''Cebus''|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6TmtS_qOwgC&pg=PA36|date=21 June 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-66768-5|pages=36–|chapter=Behavioral ecology: how do capuchins make a living?}}</ref> Capuchins living near water will also eat crabs and shellfish by cracking their shells with stones.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Port-Carvalhoa | first1 = M. | last2 = Ferraria | first2 = S. F. | last3 = Magalhãesc | first3 = C. | year = 2004 | title = Predation of Crabs by Tufted Capuchins (''Cebus apella'') in Eastern Amazonia | journal = Folia Primatol | volume = 75 | issue = 3| pages = 154–156 | doi=10.1159/000078305 | pmid=15240980| s2cid = 1647323 }}</ref>