Young male capuchins have developed a strange trend of acquiring baby howler monkeys. It doesn't end well for the babies.

Capuchins are also known for developing odd social rituals across their range. Scientists studying mainland populations have ...

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

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 ...

On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler ...

Scientists have found evidence of monkey kidnappings in Panama. Video footage shows male capuchin monkeys carrying howler ...

Scientists on Panama's Jicarón Island were mystified by photos and videos of young male capuchins carrying howler monkeys on their backs for days at a time ...

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.

The scientists nicknamed one capuchin kidnapper Joker because the scar at the side of its mouth reminded them of the "Batman" villain.

Motion-triggered cameras have been used to observe white-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island, off the coast of Panama, since 2017. Doctoral researcher Zoë Goldsborough was looking through the camera ...

"Monkey see, monkey do" has had distressing consequences for howler monkeys on a small island off the coast of Panama.