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 ...

Scientists reviewing camera footage from a small island in Panama discovered unexpected and unsettling behavior: capuchin monkeys were seen taking baby howler monkeys. At least 11 such incidents ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

If that happens, ultimate fighting would pale in comparison. Says Bomsel: “These monkeys are very aggressive, and being stronger than humans, will inflict serious injury by biting and clawing.” ...

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.

Sri Lanka’s macaque monkeys have become problem solvers as in Nalapana Jathakaya where the Bodhisathwa monkey is depicted as using a bamboo straw to drink water and avoid being captured by a ‘water ...