Monkeys live throughout Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America. They’re distinct from other types of primate, like ...

So the image of an infant howler monkey clinging to the back of a white-faced capuchin confused Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.

Anecdotes exist of some animals adopting babies of other species. In a well-known case from 2006, a pair of capuchins adopted a baby marmoset and succeeded in raising it into adulthood.

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023, ... a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.

A recording dated January 26, 2022, first documented an unidentified young capuchin male carrying a howler monkey (Alouatta palliata coibensis) infant. The next day Joker was carrying that same ...

Capuchin monkeys have been monkey-napping baby howler monkeys in Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park, off the coast of Panama. Brendan J. Barrett, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior ...

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023. ... a behavioural ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Germany.

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.

He describes capuchin monkeys as "chaos agents" that roam through the forest ripping up and manipulating everything in sight, and says they're similar to humans and chimps in many ways.

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. CREDIT: Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Get ...

Capuchin monkeys have been monkey-napping baby howler monkeys in Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park, off the coast of Panama. Brendan J. Barrett, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior ...

Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The ...