Tool-using Capuchin monkeys from Jicarón Island have been captured on-camera carrying kidnapped howler monkey infants. On Jicarón Island, in the Coiba National Park, off the western Pacific coast of ...

On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a remarkable culture. White-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park use stone tools; and scientists have ...

On the remote Jicarón Island off Panama’s Pacific coast, a strange and unsettling drama has begun playing out in the treetops—and on hidden camera footage. White-faced capuchin monkeys, typically ...

Why are capuchin monkeys kidnapping howler monkey babies in Panama? We investigate this bizarre case of primate abduction with researchers working with the Smithsonian to get to the bottom of this ...

A capuchin named Joker started the apparent trend, leading researchers to suspect "there was something a little quirky about him, or that he was kind of lonely in a way.” Reading time 3 minutes A ...

On a remote, human-free island off the coast of Panama, something strange is going on: capuchin monkeys are kidnapping baby howler monkeys. And they’re not eating them, hurting them, or raising them.

A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, its tiny fingers grasping fur. But they're not related and not even the same species. Scientists spotted surprising evidence of what ...

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A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Primatologist Susan Perry of UCLA has spent much of the past 35 years studying the complex social lives of white-faced capuchin ...

Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The ...