Cameras on a remote island captured how a novel social tradition originated and spread. Off the coast of Panama, on a remote ...

A gang of young white-faced capuchins, clever monkeys already known for inventing the use of stone tools, has taken to ...

Video footage shows male capuchin monkeys carrying at least 11 howler monkey babies between 2022 and 2023. The monkeys' motivations remain under investigation.

A rare cultural behavior spreads among young male capuchins and baby howlers, raising questions about animal traditions and ...

A capuchin named Joker started the apparent trend, leading researchers to suspect "there was something a little quirky about ...

A group of white-faced capuchins on a remote island have started stealing infants from another primate species, and ...

In January 2022, Zoë Goldsborough, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany and study lead author, saw footage of a young male capuchin monkey carrying a baby ...

Gone Monkey Gone! Capuchin Named 'Joker' Sparks Cruel Baby Howler Monkey Abduction Fad On Panamanian Island. A capuchin monkey named 'Joker' has sparked a bizarre and cruel fad among his kind on an ...

In bewildering new footage a capuchin monkey, the size of a house-cat, is videoed with a baby howler monkey clinging to its ...

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.

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl ...

Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The sightings were remotely ...