First record of Peruvian spider monkeys (<i>Ateles chamek</i>) feeding on a known mushroom species, <i>Oudemansiella canarii</i> (Physalacriaceae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A large group of Peruvian spider monkeys, Ateles chamek, was recorded feeding on Oudemansiella canarii mushrooms in Madre de Dios, Peru. The observed spider monkeys were seen foraging for mushrooms on the forest floor where they grew on downed logs. Spider monkeys are ripe fruit specialists that rarely venture to the forest floor, suggesting that these mushrooms could represent an important though seldom consumed food source. Previous accounts of spider monkeys consuming mushrooms are sparse and do not include identification of the fungi. O. canarii mushrooms have a relatively high protein content, possible immunological benefits, and are present during times of relative fruit scarcity in the region. These reasons could explain why the spider monkeys risked a visit to the forest floor to forage for O. canarii mushrooms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".