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 ...

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) PARIS - A new trend is catching on among bored young male capuchins: Kidnapping baby howler monkeys, in what scientists say is the first time animals have been recorded ...

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023. WASHINGTON — A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, its tiny fingers grasping fur.

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys ...

Per Smithsonian, Zoë Goldsborough, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, first observed footage of a young male capuchin monkey carrying a baby howler monkey in June 2022 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A baby howler monkey clung to the back of an older male monkey, its tiny fingers grasping fur. But they're not related and not even the same species. Scientists spotted ...

"I was very shocked" to see a white-faced capuchin monkey with a baby howler monkey on its back, Goldsborough, a researcher at Germany's Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, told AFP.

A handful of male capuchin monkeys have been caught on camera abducting babies from another species, baffling the scientists who study them. Over a 15-month period, five male capuchins were seen ...