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 ...

Researchers found capuchins on Jicarón Island abducting baby howlers, raising questions about primate behavior and cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The footage showed the capuchins walking and pounding their stone tools with baby howlers on their backs. But cameras did not ...

Capuchin monkeys have been caught on camera abducting the babies of another primate. The "weird" fad, which led to the deaths ...

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