The new arrival marks an important milestone for Fife Zoo's conservation efforts, as De Brazza’s monkeys are part of a ...

Young male capuchins have developed a strange trend of acquiring baby howler monkeys. It doesn't end well for the babies.

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

Fascinating new video footage captured on a remote island has captured a bizarre new phenomenon - baby monkeys being abducted by another species. The unprecedented craze of so-called 'monkey ...

A group of capuchin monkeys has evolved a terrifying new habit on a remote island off the coast of Panama: kidnapping young howler monkeys. What started as an anomaly, a single young man carrying an ...

The team from the Max Planck Institute started putting the camera traps on the ground on Jicarón Island in 2017. "These monkeys don't have terrestrial predators, so these capuchins spend the ...

She found four different instances of the same capuchin, a male who she named Joker, carrying baby howler monkeys. “With everything we found, we had more answers, but also more questions ...

Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists. The disturbing fad could be the result of boredom. By Lauren Leffer. Published May 19, 2025 11:00 AM EDT.

Monkeys are kidnapping babies of another species on a ... Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin.

Monkeys on a remote island have shocked scientists with their never-before-seen behaviour. A behavioural ecologist captured a capuchin monkey carrying a small figure on its back on her camera trap ...

To the point. Animal abduction: On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys—a behavior never before seen in ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...