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

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

A gang of young white-faced capuchins, clever monkeys already known for inventing the use of stone tools, has taken to ...

Researchers found capuchins on Jicarón Island abducting baby howlers, raising questions about primate behavior and cultural ...

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

where both need and free time are often abundant.” However, if the infant-stealing tradition persists, it could be problematic for Jicarón’s howler monkeys, which are an endangered subspecies, the ...

Camera traps on Panama’s Jicaron Island show young male capuchins repeatedly abducting baby howler monkeys, a baffling social trend detailed in Current Biology ...

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 sightings were remotely ...

Capuchin monkeys have been caught on camera abducting the babies of another primate. The "weird" fad, which led to the deaths ...

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

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

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