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 ...

Fascinating new video footage captured on a remote island has captured a bizarre new phenomenon - baby monkeys being abducted by another species. The unprecedented craze of so-called 'monkey ...

Scientists studying footage from Jicarón Island spotted something unusual: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

But, like humans, other primates are complicated. And sometimes they do things that aren’t so heartwarming . Members of an isolated group of white-faced capuchins have been kidnapping baby ...

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.

Howler monkeys primarily live in trees, so Crofoot assumes that is where the capuchins found them. Why capuchins appear to be abducting baby howlers is still unclear, but the team examined ...

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.

Capuchin monkeys develop bizarre 'fad' of abducting baby howlers. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 / 250519131131.htm ...

Monkeys kidnap babies of another species in weird 'fad' Paris (AFP) – A new trend is catching on among bored young male capuchins: kidnapping baby howler monkeys, in what scientists say is the ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...

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 ...

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl away. Camera footage showed one occasion when an adult howler came and tried ...