This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarón Island, Panama in September 2022. (Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of ...

By Stephen Beech Capuchin monkeys have been caught on camera abducting the babies of another primate. The "weird" fad, which led to the deaths of several baby howler monkeys, was started by a male ...

It's no secret that humans and primates share many common traits (and the vast majority of our DNA), but some monkey behaviors still leave scientists baffled. One of these behaviors was seen as ...

Motion-triggered cameras have been used to observe white-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island, off the coast of Panama, since 2017. Doctoral researcher Zoë Goldsborough was looking through the camera ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, its tiny fingers grasping fur. But they’re not related and not even the same species. Scientists spotted surprising ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...