The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023, researchers said Monday. "This was very much a shocking finding," said Zoë Goldsborough, ...

Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler monkeys. Why? Maybe boredom.

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023. open image in gallery. Monkeys Kidnapping Monkeys (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) ...

Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang out with their neighbors, the howler monkeys, on Jicarón island off Panama. So the image of an infant howler monkey clinging to the back of a white-faced ...

A young male capuchin named Joker may just be the world’s first primate influencer. But the trend he started—abducting babies belonging to a separate species—has deadly consequences.

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.

Howler infant number 5 on the back of a juvenile capuchin carrier, who is using stone tools at an anvil site in a stream bed. CREDIT: Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Get ...

Animal abduction: 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 ...

Capuchin Monkeys Caught on Camera ‘Abducting’ Baby Howler Monkeys in a Strange Tradition Seen for the First Time Scientists on Panama’s Jicarón Island were mystified by photos and videos of ...

On Jicarón Island, in the Coiba National Park, off the western Pacific coast of Panama, white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator) are the subject of a long-term observational study that ...

Capuchin monkeys on a remote Panamanian island are abducting babies from howler monkey families, in a first-of-its-kind trend. The wild population of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus ...

A young male nicknamed Joker was probably the first to start carrying a howler monkey baby on his back for days on end. Then a group of other young males started to copy him.