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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.” ...

Over a 15-month period, five male capuchins were seen carrying around 11 different baby howler monkeys in trap-camera footage captured on Jicarón Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of ...