Monkey-Nappers! A Group of Capuchin Monkeys Caught on Camera With Abducted Baby Howler Monkeys. Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant ...

Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler monkeys. Why? Maybe boredom.

Monkeys; Zoo monkey eats her baby's corpse after carrying it around for days. News. By Harry Baker published 3 July 2023 The mother repeatedly tried to catch the dead infant's gaze before throwing ...

In bewildering new footage a capuchin monkey, the size of a house-cat, is videoed with a baby howler monkey clinging to its back. Neither monkey are related, nor even the same species.

Capuchin monkeys are mainly known for their intelligence and resourcefulness. However, scientists have come across a strange, new behavior among the primates: child abduction. Per Smithsonian ...

A young male capuchin named Joker may just be the world’s first primate influencer. But the trend he started—abducting babies belonging to a separate species—has deadly consequences.

Capuchin monkeys caught abducting baby howlers. Cameras on a remote island in Panama captured the origin and spread of a bizarre “fad” May 19, 2025. Behavioral Biology. A young male white-faced ...

Video footage shows male capuchin monkeys carrying at least 11 howler monkey babies between 2022 and 2023. ... WASHINGTON — A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, ...

Scientists studying camera trap footage from Jicarón Island spotted something unusual: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler monkey on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

This is chronologically the first sighting of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant. In the video, a juvenile male capuchin is carrying howler infant number 1 on his chest.

Violeta the baby spider monkey is beginning a new chapter at the Oakland Zoo after she was rescued by authorities during a methamphetamine bust in Solano County.