Scientists have found surprising video evidence of what they call monkey kidnappings – and they’re trying to figure out why.

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

On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler ...

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

Wildlife trafficking is one of the largest illegal trades in the world. A baby spider monkey and two rattlesnakes were discovered at the home of a suspect who was busted for methamphetamine during ...

Because the baby snatchings have got to be hitting the local howler monkey population hard, as these monkeys don't reproduce often and have only one baby at a time. One of the things the ...

was reviewing camera footage when, to her surprise, she saw a capuchin carrying a howler monkey baby.