If you’ve ever wondered why your teeth ache after biting into something ... have captured perplexing behavior by some male capuchin monkeys, according to a new study. A white-faced capuchin ...

A young male white-faced capuchin carries a baby howler monkey on its back, captured by a remote camera trap on Jicarón Island © Brendan Barrett / Max Planck ...

Scientists have captured footage of an unusual social tradition in capuchin monkeys abducting infant howler monkeys – a never-before-seen behaviour in wild primates. Researchers at Jicarón ...

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023, researchers said Monday. "This was very much a shocking finding," said Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ...

Wild capuchin monkeys have been kidnapping infant howler monkeys, putting them on their backs and taking them for a ride. The trend, which began with one male, spread to other members of the group ...

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.

That's what scientists think after watching a bunch of male white-faced capuchin monkeys walking around with baby howler monkeys clinging to their backs. The perplexing baby-snatchings ...

At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin. But something, she said ...