A handful of male capuchin monkeys have been caught on camera abducting babies from another species, baffling the scientists who study them. Over a 15-month period, five male capuchins were seen ...

On an isolated island in Panama, white-faced capuchin monkeys have developed unprecedented behavior. A recent study reveals ...

Scientists spotted surprising evidence of what they describe as monkey kidnappings while reviewing video footage from a small island of Panama. The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 ...

Wild capuchin monkeys have been kidnapping infant howler monkeys, putting them on their backs and taking them for a ride. The ...

Scientists studying camera trap footage from Jicarón Island spotted something unusual: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler monkey on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

Observations of Coiba's tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the reason for this behavior?

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl away. Camera footage showed one occasion when an adult howler came and tried ...

“I saw this capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on its back and I was completely shocked,” Zoë Goldsborough, lead study author and a behavioral ecology PhD student at the Max Planck ...

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At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin. But something, she said ...