Cameras on a remote island captured how a novel social tradition originated and spread. Off the coast of Panama, on a remote ...

Capuchins are also known for developing odd social rituals across their range. Scientists studying mainland populations have ...

On Jicarón Island, white-faced capuchin monkeys ( Cebus capucinus imitator) rule, unmolested by predators. In their peace, ...

A rare cultural behavior spreads among young male capuchins and baby howlers, raising questions about animal traditions and ...

Observations of Coiba's tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the ...

Scientists working on Jicarón Island noticed that the Capuchin monkey population had started to ‘kidnap’ younger monkeys of ...

On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a remarkable culture. White-faced capuchins on ...

Capuchin monkeys have the largest brains of all New World monkeys. Meet all the members of this group and learn what their roles are.

With this relative safety and freedom, Jicarón’s capuchin monkeys might be a bit bored ... has usually thought that necessity, rather than free time, is the mother of invention in nature.

By Shreya Dasgupta On a remote Panamanian island, researchers have observed for the very first time young male capuchin ...

The footage showed the capuchins walking and pounding their stone tools with baby howlers on their backs. But cameras did not ...