JICARÓN ISLAND, Panama, May 20, 2025 — White-faced capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island, ... Capuchin Monkeys Adopt Howler Infants. Story by The Southern Maryland Chronicle • 4m.

They continued to analyze the footage, and found that in the span of 15 months, 11 infant howler monkeys were carried by juvenile or subadult male capuchin monkeys for periods of up to nine days.

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.

Monkeys have been known to “adopt” abandoned infants of the same or other species. ... a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

Capuchin monkeys have been monkey-napping baby howler monkeys in Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park, off the coast of Panama. Brendan J. Barrett, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior ...

Monkey-Nappers! A Group of Capuchin Monkeys Caught on Camera With Abducted Baby Howler Monkeys. Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant ...

He describes capuchin monkeys as "chaos agents" that roam through the forest ripping up and manipulating everything in sight, and says they're similar to humans and chimps in many ways.

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 ...

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 ...

She found four different instances of the same capuchin, a male who she named Joker, carrying baby howler monkeys. “With everything we found, we had more answers, but also more questions ...

A handful of male capuchin monkeys have been caught on camera abducting babies from another species, baffling the scientists who study them. Over a 15-month period, five male capuchins were seen ...