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.

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.

“The capuchin monkeys have dark fur and light face, and this [baby] had lighter fur and a dark face.” The only other primates on the island are howler monkeys, and this infant’s coloration ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Monkeys Kidnapping Monkeys (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) The videos recorded a few instances of young capuchin males still carrying howler babies that had died, likely from starvation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, ... The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023.

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023. ... This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey, right, ...

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.