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

In 2022 and 2023, several male Capuchin monkeys in Panama were spotted with babies on their backs, which is not that unusual in itself. Upon closer inspection, however, biologists noticed that ...

On a remote Panamanian island, researchers have observed for the very first time young male capuchin monkeys stealing howler monkey babies, according to a new study. Since 2017, researchers have ...

On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a remarkable culture. White-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park use stone tools; and scientist ...

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023. “This was very much a shocking finding,” said Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max ...

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

This is chronologically the first sighting of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant. In the video, a juvenile male capuchin is carrying howler infant number 1 on his chest.

This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarn Island, Panama in February 2023. (Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of ...

This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarn Island, Panama in February 2023.