A young male white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a baby howler monkey, caught by a remote camera trap on Jicarón. These are for editorial purposes relating to this press release and the study ...

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 ...

Motion-triggered cameras have been used to observe white-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island, off the coast of Panama, since 2017. Doctoral researcher Zoë Goldsborough was looking through the camera ...

On a remote Panamanian island, researchers have observed for the very first time young male capuchin monkeys stealing howler monkey babies, according to a new ...

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. - ...

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 ...

A young male white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a baby howler monkey, caught by a remote camera trap on Jicarón. On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a ...

The "weird" fad, which led to the deaths of several baby howler monkeys, was started by a male capuchin named Joker by scientists. The study, published in the journal Current Biology, is the first ...

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