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 ...

A group of capuchin monkeys has evolved a terrifying new habit on a remote island off the coast of Panama: kidnapping young ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

Video footage shows male capuchin monkeys carrying at least 11 howler monkey babies between 2022 and 2023. The monkeys' motivations remain under investigation. ...

Scientists have found evidence of monkey kidnappings in Panama. “This was very much a shocking finding,” said Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal ...

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 behavioural ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Germany.