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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Howler infant number 5 on the back of a juvenile capuchin carrier, who is using stone tools at an anvil site in a stream bed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, the monkeys have taken their shenanigans a step further. They have been caught doing something that scientists had never seen ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A baby howler monkey clung ...

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 ...

Capuchin monkeys on a remote Panamanian island are abducting babies from howler monkey families, in a first-of-its-kind trend. At first, the researchers thought it was a case of “one individual who ...

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 ...