While several studies have examined important aspects of the behaviour, ranging patterns, resource use and seed dispersal by capuchin monkeys, few have analysed defecation patterns from the perspective of the plant.
This insight is confided in the study:
“Seed dispersal patterns produced by white-faced monkeys: implications for the dispersal limitation of neotropical tree species,” Wehncke EV, Hubbell SP, Foster RB and Dalling JW, Journal of Ecology, vol. 91, 2003, pp. 677-85.