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

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

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

Off the coast of Panama, on an island uninhabited by humans, a culture unlike any other has arisen. On Jicarón Island, ...

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists studying camera trap footage from Jicarón Island spotted something unusual: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler monkey on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

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.