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 ...

There’s a serious case of stranger danger unfolding on an island off the coast of Panama. A gang of five juvenile capuchin monkeys living on Jicarón Island has started abducting baby howler monkeys, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new baby howler monkey at the Houston Zoo. Its gender is not yet known. (Courtesy of the Houston Zoo) The Houston Zoo welcomed ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A baby black howler monkey has a new home. The Buffalo Zoo welcomed the newborn monkey into the world last month. Now, visitors can meet the monkey baby at the zoo’s M&T ...

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 ...

The Houston Zoo welcomed a new baby howler monkey last month. The baby, born on March 20 to mother Charlie, is on display in the Zoo's South America's Pantanal exhibit. But the baby doesn't have a ...