Scientists were left baffled after examining 15 months' worth of footage showing the monkeys doing something they'd never ...

A new trend is catching on among bored young male capuchins: kidnapping baby howler monkeys, in what scientists say is the ...

A capuchin named Joker started the apparent trend, leading researchers to suspect "there was something a little quirky about ...

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

Scientists working on Jicarón Island noticed that the Capuchin monkey population had started to ‘kidnap’ younger monkeys of ...

At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin. But something, she said ...

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

A rare cultural behavior spreads among young male capuchins and baby howlers, raising questions about animal traditions and ...

Doctoral researcher Zoë Goldsborough of MPI-AB noticed this around June 2022 while looking through the camera traps’ footage. The first sighting of this behavior was captured as early as ...

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

A group of white-faced capuchins on a remote island have started stealing infants from another primate species, and ...