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 ...

Primatologist Susan Perry of UCLA has spent much of the past 35 years studying the complex social lives of white-faced capuchin monkeys, at a field site she established in one of the remaining patches ...

Camera trap footage from Jicarón Island revealed a male capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on its back. Now, scientists are trying to understand what's driving this kidnapping behavior. - ...

Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason. By Elizabeth Landau Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang out with ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island have started abducting baby howler monkeys, surprised scientists report. It’s possible this behavior comes in waves, but it had not been detected in the ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: Bannerughatta Biological Park (BBP) in Bengaluru has imported eight black-capped capuchin monkeys — four male and ...

(CNN) — 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, ...