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. Here a white-faced ...

A howler monkey infant, only a few days old, clings to a subadult white-faced capuchin monkey as it uses tools. Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior In June 2022, while watching ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the reason for this behavior? Vanessa Crooks Caught in the act! Capuchin monkeys ...

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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 imitator) ...

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. Usually, this behavior in females is described as adoption, thought to be ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami's Jungle Island has a cute and cuddly new addition and is proudly showing off the new little fella. He is a new white-faced baby capuchin monkey born recently at the park, but ...

A tiny howler monkey, fingers curled into fur, clung tight to a capuchin’s back. It looked like a sweet moment of monkey bonding—until scientists realised the pair weren’t even the same species. And ...

This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarón Island, Panama in September 2022. (Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of ...

The life and eventual death of a capuchin monkey with a limb disability in the wild has been described by scientists, revealing that the mother and social group treated the disabled baby much the same ...

"This is her second baby, so she knows what she's doing," a Newquay Zoo keeper said of the monkey mom Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...