Publications

Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Project Publications List

Book:

Perry, S. with Manson, J. 2008. Manipulative Monkeys:The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/PERMAN.html

(paperback with new afterword, 2011)

Fragaszy, D. & S. Perry. 2003. The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence. (Edited volume), Cambridge University Press, ISBN (0 521 81597 5).

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Godoy, I., Korsten, P. & Perry, S.E. 2024. Mother of all bonds: influences on spatial association across the lifespan in capuchins. Developmental Science, e13486. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13486

Jacobson, O.T., Crofoot, M.C., Perry, S., Hench, K. Barrett, B.J., & Finerty G. 2023. The importance of representative sampling for home range estimation in field primatology. International Journal of Primatology DOI: 10.1007/s10764-023-00398-z

Ross, C.T., Hooper, P.L., Smith, J.E., Jaeggi, A.V., Alden Smith, E., Gavrilets, S., tuz Zohora, F., Ziker, J., Xygalatas, D., Wroblewski, E.E., Wood, B., Winterhalder, B., Willführ, Willard, A.K., Walker, K., von Rueden, C., Voland, E., Valeggia, C., Vaitla, B., Urlacher, S., Towner, M., Sum, Chun-Yi, Sugiyama, L.S., Strier, K.B., Starkweather, K., Major-Smith, D., Shenk, M., Sear, R., Seabright, E., Schacht, R., Scelza, B., Scaggs, S., Salerno, J., Revilla-Minaya, C., Redhead, D., Pusey, A., Purzycki, B.G., Power, E.A., Pisor, A., Pettay, J., Perry, S., Page, A.E., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Oths, K., Oh, Seung-Yung, Nolin, D., Nettle, D., Moya, C., Bamberg Migliano, A., Mertens, K.J., McNamara, R.A., McElreath, R., Mattison, S., Massengill, E., Marlowe, F., Madimenos, F., Macfarlan, S., Lummaa, V., Koster, J., Kaplan, H.S., Jamsranjav, B., Hurtado, A.M., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Golden, S., Godoy, I., Gibson, M., El Mouden, C., Dyble, M., Draper, Pl, Downey, S., DeMarco, A.L., Davis, H.E., Crabtree, S., Cortez, C., Colleran, H., Cohen, E., Clark, G., Clark, J., Caudell, M.A., Carminito, C.E., Bunce, J., Boyette, A., Bowles, S., Blumenfield, T., Beheim, B., Beckerman, S., Atkinson, Q., Apicella, C., Alam, N, & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. 2023. PNAS 120(22):e2220124120 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220124120

Winkler, S. & Perry, S. 2022. The development of sex differences in play in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Primatology e23434 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23434 [winner of AJP Best Student Paper award]

Beehner, J., Alfaro, J.F., Allen, C.., Benítez, M.E., Bergman, T.J., Buehler, M.S., Carrera, S.C., Chester, E.M., Deschner, T., Fuentes, A., Gault, C.M., Godoy, I., Jack, K.M., Kim, J.D., Kulick, N.K., Losch, T., Ordoñez, J.C., Perry, S.E., Pinto, F., Reilly, O.T., Johnson, E.T., Wasserman, M.D. 2022. Real-time hormones from wild primates: Steroid hormone validation in white-faced capuchins at the Taboga field laboratory. General and Comparative Endocrinology 329(5):114109 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114109

Godoy, I., Korsten, P., & Perry, S. 2022. Genetic, maternal, and environmental influences on sociality in a pedigreed primate population. Heredity 129:203-214. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00558-6

Kajokaite, K., Whalen, A., Koster, J., & Perry, S. 2022. Fitness benefits of providing services to others: sociality predicts survival in a neotropical primate. Behavioral Ecology 33(4):807-81 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac043

Duchesneau, A., Edelberg, D. & Perry, S. 2021. Are demographic correlates of white-faced capuchin monkeys’ (Cebus capucinus) “gargle” and “twargle” vocalization rates consistent with the infanticide risk assessment hypothesis? American Journal of Primatology DOI:10.1002/ajp.23344

Colchero, F., Aburto, J.M., Archie, E.A., Boesch, C., Breuer, T., Campos, F.A., Collins, A., Conde, D.A., Cords, M., Crockford, C., Emery Thompson, M., Fedigan, L.M., Fichtel, C., Groenenberg, M., Hobaiter, C., Kappeler, P.M., Lawler, R.R., Lewis, R.J., Machanda, Z.P., Manguette, M.L., Muller, M.N., Packer, C., Parnell, R.J., Perry, S., Pusey, A.E., Robbins, M.M., Seyfarth, R.M., Silk, J.B., Staerk, J., Stoinski, T.S., Stokes, E.J., Strum, S.C., Tung, J., Villavicencio, F., Wittig, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Zuberbühler, K., Vaupel, J.W., & Alberts, S.C. 2021. The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis. Nature Communications. 12, 3666, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3.

Zipple, M.N., Altmann, J., Campos, F.A., Cords, M., Fedigan, L.M., Lawler, R.R., Lonsdorf, E.V., Perry, S., Pusey, A.E., Stoinski, T.S., Strier, K.B., & Alberts, S C. 2021. Maternal death and offspring fitness in multiple wild primates. PNAS 118 (1) e2015317118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015317118

Perry, S. & Smolla, M. 2020. Capuchin monkey rituals: an interdisciplinary study of form and function. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 375: 20190422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0422

Perry, S. 2020. Behavioural variation and learning across the lifespan in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 375: 20190494. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.049

Kajokaite, K., Whalen, A., Panchanathan, K. & Perry, S. 2019. White-faced capuchins use both rank and relationship quality to recruit allies. Anim. Behav. 154:161-169.

Perry, S., Barrett, B.J., & Godoy, I. 2017. Older, sociable capuchins (Cebus capucinus) invent more social behaviors, but younger monkeys innovate more in other contexts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(30):7806-7813 Published online June 24, 2017, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1620739114

Barrett, B.J., McElreath, R., & Perry, S.E. 2017. Payoff-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20170358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0358

Schaebs, F., Perry, S., Cohen, D., Mundry, R. & Deschner, T. 2017. Social and demographic correlates of male androgen levels in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus). Amer. J. Primatol. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22653

Perry, S., Godoy, I., Lammers, W., & Lin, A. 2017. Impact of personality traits and early life experience on timing of emigration and rise to alpha male status for wild male white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) at Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve, Costa Rica. Behaviour 154(2):195-226.

Godoy, I., Vigilant, L. & Perry, S. 2016. Inbreeding risk, avoidance and costs in a group-living primate, Cebus capucinus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70:1601–1611, DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2168-1

Godoy, I., Vigilant, L. & Perry, S. 2016. Cues to kinship and close relatedness during infancy in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. Animal Behaviour 116:139-151.

Manson, J.H. & Perry, S. 2013. Personality structure, sex differences, and temporal change and stability in wild white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. J. Comp. Psych. 127:299-311. doi: 10.1037/a0031316

Meno, W., Coss, R.G., & Perry, S. 2013. Development of snake-directed antipredator behavior by wild white-faced capuchin monkeys: I. Snake-species discrimination. Amer. J. Primatol. 75:281-291. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22106

Meno, W., Coss, R.G., & Perry, S. 2013. Development of snake-directed antipredator behavior by wild white-faced capuchin monkeys: II. Influence of the social environment. Amer. J. Primatol. 75:292-300. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22109

Perry, S. 2012. The behavior of wild white-faced capuchins: Demography, life history, social relationships, and communication. Advances in the Study of Behavior, vol. 44:135-181.

Gogarten, J.F., Brown, L.M., Chapman, C.A., Cords, M., Doran-Sheehy, D., Fedigan, L.M., Grine, F.E., Perry, S., Pusey, A.E., Sterck, E.H.M., Wich, S.A., and Wright, P.C., 2012. Seasonal mortality patterns in non-human primates: Implications for variation in selection pressures across environments. Evolution. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01668.x

Meunier, H., Molina Vila, P., & Perry, S. 2012. Participation in group defence: Proximate factors affecting male behaviour in wild white-faced capuchins. Anim. Behav. 83:621-628. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.12.001

Weltring, A., Schaebs, F.S., Perry, S.E., & Deschner, T. (2012) Simultaneous measurement of endogenous steroid hormones and their metabolites with LC-MS/MS in faeces of a New World primate species, Cebus capucinus. Physiology & Behavior. 105:510-521

Perry, S. 2011. Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus). Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 366:988-996. This is also published as Chapter 6 in a book entitled Culture Evolves (Eds. A. Whiten, R.A. Hinde, C.B. Stringer, K.N. Laland), Oxford University Press, 2012.

Muniz, L., Perry, S., Manson, J.H., Gilkenson, J. Gros-Louis, J., & Vigilant, L. 2010. Male dominance and reproductive success in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) at Lomas Barbudal, Costa Rica. American Journal of Primatology, 72:1118-1130, DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20876

Perry, S. 2009. Conformism in the food processing techniques of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus). Anim. Cogn. 12(5):705-17 (DOI 10.1007/s10071-009-0230-3)

Perry, S., Manson, J.H., Muniz, L., Gros-Louis, J., Vigilant, L. 2008. Kin-biased Social Behaviour in Wild Adult Female White-faced Capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Animal Behaviour 76(1):187-199.

Muniz, L. & Vigilant, L. 2008. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in the white-faced capuchin monkey (Cebus capucinus) and cross-species amplification in other New World monkeys. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:402-405.

Gros-Louis, J., Perry, S., Fichtel, C, Wikberg, E., Gilkenson, H., Wofsy, S. and Fuentes, A. 2008. Vocal repertoire of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus): acoustic structure, context and usage. International Journal of Primatology 29:641-670.

Campos, F., J.H. Manson & S. Perry. 2007. Urine washing and sniffing in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): testing functional hypotheses. International Journal of Primatology. 28:55-72.

Perry, S. 2006. What cultural primatology can tell anthropologists about the evolution of culture. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:171-90.

Gros-Louis, J. 2006. Acoustic description and contextual analysis of food-associated calls in Cebus capucinus. International Journal of Primatology 27: 273-294.

Muniz, L., Perry, S., Manson, J., Gilkenson, H., Gros-Louis, J., Vigilant, L. 2006. Father-daughter inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate population. Current Biology 16(5):156-7.

Manson, J., Perry, S. & Stahl, D. 2005. Reconciliation in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Primatology. 65:205-219.

Fichtel, C., S. Perry & J. Gros-Louis. 2005. Alarm calls of white-faced capuchin monkeys: an acoustic analysis. Animal Behaviour. 70:165-176.

Perry, S., Barrett, H.C., Manson, J.H. 2004. White-faced capuchin monkeys exhibit triadic awareness in their choice of allies. Animal Behaviour 67: 165-170.

Manson, J.H., Navarrete, C.D., Silk, J., and Perry, S. 2004. Time-matched grooming in female primates? New analyses from two species. Animal Behaviour 67: 493-500.

Manson, J.H., J. Gros-Louis, and S. Perry. 2004. Three apparent cases of infanticide by males in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Folia Primatologica 75: 104-106.

Gros-Louis, J. 2004. White-faced capuchins’ responses to naturalistic and experimentally presented food-associated calls. Journal of Comparative Psychology 118(4): 396-402.

Gros-Louis, J. 2004. The function of food-associated calls from the perspective of the signaller. Animal Behaviour 67(3): 431-440.

Gros-Louis, J., S. Perry, and J.H. Manson. 2003. Violent coalitionary attacks and intraspecific killing in wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus). Primates 44:341-346.

Rose, L., S. Perry, M. Panger, K. Jack, J. Manson, J. Gros-Louis, K. MacKinnon & E. Vogel. 2003. Interspecific interactions between white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) and other species: Preliminary data from three Costa Rican sites. International Journal of Primatology. 24(4):759-796.

Perry, S., Manson, J.H., Dower,G. and Wikberg, E. 2003. White-faced capuchins cooperate to rescue a groupmate from a Boa constrictor. Folia Primatologica.74:109-111.

Perry, S. and J.H. Manson. 2003. Traditions in monkeys. Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 71-81.

Perry, S., M. Baker, L. Fedigan, J. Gros-Louis, K. Jack, K. MacKinnon, J. Manson, M. Panger, K. Pyle, & L. Rose. 2003. Social conventions in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys: Evidence for traditions in a neotropical primate. Current Anthropology 44: 241-268.

Gros-Louis, J. 2002. Contexts and behavioral correlates of trill vocalizations in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Primatology 57(4): 189-202.

Panger, M., S. Perry, L. Rose, J. Gros-Louis, E. Vogel, K. MacKinnon, and M. Baker

2002. Cross-site differences in the foraging behavior of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 119:52-66.

Manson, J.H., & S. Perry. 2000. Correlates of self-directed behavior in wild white-faced capuchins. Ethology 106:301-317.

Manson, J.H. 1999. Infant handling in wild Cebus capucinus: testing bonds between females? Animal Behaviour 57: 911-921.

Manson, J.H., L. Rose, S. Perry & J. Gros-Louis. 1999. Dynamics of female-female social relationships in wild Cebus capucinus: data from two Costa Rican sites. International Journal Primatology 20:679-706.

Perry, S. 1998. Male-male social relationships in wild white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Behaviour. 135:1-34.

Perry, S. 1998. A case report of a male rank reversal in a group of wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). Primates 39(1):51-69.

Manson, J.H., Perry, S., & Parish, A.R. 1997. Nonconceptive sexual behavior in bonobos and capuchins. International Journal of Primatology. 18:767-786.

Perry, S. 1997. Male-female social relationships in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. Behaviour 134:477-510.

Perry, S. 1996. Female-female relationships in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. American Journal of Primatology 40:167-182.

Perry, S. 1996. Intergroup encounters in wild white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. International Journal of Primatology 17(3):309-330.

Perry, S. and L. Rose. 1994. Begging and transfer of coati meat by white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. Primates. vol. 35(4):409-415.

Book chapters:

Perry, S., Godoy, I. & Lammers, W. 2012. The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project: Two decades of research on Cebus capucinus. In: Long-term Field Studies of Primates. (Eds. P. Kappeler & D. Watts), Springer, pp. 141-165.

Perry, S. 2010. Culture. In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, vol. 1 (M.D. Breed & J. Moore, eds.), Oxford: Academic Press, pp. 440-444.

Perry, S. 2009. Are nonhuman primates likely to exhibit cultural capacities like those of humans? In The Question of Animal Culture. (K. Laland & B.G. Galef, eds.) Harvard University Press, pp. 247-268.

Perry, S., Ordoñez Jiménez, J.C. 2006. The effects of food size, rarity, and processing complexity on white-faced capuchins’ visual attention to foraging conspecifics. In Feeding Ecology in Apes and other Primates (G. Hohmann, M. Robbins and C. Boesch, eds.) Cambridge University Press. Pp. 203-234.

Perry, S., M. Panger, L. Rose, M. Baker, J. Gros-Louis, K. Jack, K. MacKinnon, J. Manson, L. Fedigan, & K. Pyle. 2003. Traditions in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. In The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence. (D. Fragaszy & S. Perry, eds.) Cambridge University Press. pp. 391-425.

Fragaszy, D. & S. Perry. 2003. Towards a Biology of Traditions. Introductory chapter in The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence. (D. Fragaszy & S. Perry, eds.) Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-32.

Perry, S. Conclusions and research agendas. 2003. Final chapter in The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence. (D. Fragaszy & S. Perry, eds.), pp. 426-440.

Perry, S. 2003. Coalitionary aggression in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. In Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture and Individualized Societies. Eds. F.B.M. de Waal & P. Tyack, Harvard University Press. Pp. 111-114.