How to Use capuchin in a Sentence

capuchin

noun

• The pair's youngest sons, Jack and Pickett, are part of the zoo's current capuchin troop.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Their two youngest sons, Jack and Pickett, are part of the zoo’s current capuchin troop.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• The site’s capuchins use quartzite cobbles as hammerstones, and tree limbs and loose stones as anvils.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• In 2016, the zoo brought in three younger Margarita Island capuchins and the zoo is hopeful that the human-like monkey’s mate is among the trio.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Or Brazilian capuchin monkeys that use heavy stones to smash hard nuts against flat boulders that serve as anvils.
  — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• Monk, a 4-year-old capuchin monkey, was seen in police body cam footage clinging to Hession ‘s chest.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 9 June 2018
• And an earlier dig by Dr Falótico found evidence that, in capuchins, this habit goes back at least 600 years.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• Female Costa Rican capuchins with female friends were found to live longer.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• Female capuchins even flirt with potential mates by throwing rocks at them.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 June 2019
• Oh, and there was the unfortunate capuchin monkey seized at customs in Germany.
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2019
• Visitors can walk through trails and get up close to one gorilla, one orangutan, five capuchins and dozens of Java macaques and squirrel monkeys.
  — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
• On the other side of the globe, in the Brazilian Amazon, palm nuts are smashed hammer-and-anvil style by capuchins — clever monkeys boasting the largest brain-to-body size ratio of any primate besides humans.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• The unnamed human-like monkey used to live with two female Margarita Island capuchins, but both of the ladies died before a love connection could be made.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Sometime in the last century, modern capuchin culture emerged.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 June 2019
• Hammonds booked travel for the capuchin with wildlife transporters who were not permitted to possess the capuchin species of monkey in neither Florida nor Nevada, where the buyer agreed to meet for the deal.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• Researchers have detected Zika in capuchin monkeys and common marmosets, which both reside near humans in Brazil.
  — Aimee Cunningham, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• The 30-year-old singer was allowed to enter a diversion program nearly a year after he was charged with two misdemeanors over his possession of a pet capuchin monkey without a permit.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2019
• When this occurred, the capuchins and squirrel monkeys anticipated correctly, while the marmosets missed out on their reward.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• The study, published today in Science Advances, adds to another recent finding that Brazilian white-faced capuchin monkeys also produce stone flakes.
  — Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
• Officers responded to a call about a missing capuchin monkey Tuesday after the primate had gotten loose following a crash on Interstate 75.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2023
• While less dexterous than their capuchin counterparts, squirrel monkeys have limited thumb rotation, but can oppose their thumbs.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• Scientists have previously observed other primates, including capuchins and chimpanzees, using stone tools to crack nuts, extract shellfish and dig, according to the paper.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024