A young male nicknamed Joker was probably the first to start carrying a howler monkey baby on his back for days on end. Then a group of other young males started to copy him.

Often using the pen name "Omnia Palliata" - Latin for "everything masked" - Lorenzo has won the Young Post 's 2012 Summer Story competition. The theme for stories, which had to be set in Hong Kong ...

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.

Off the coast of Panama, on an island uninhabited by humans, a culture unlike any other has arisen. Now, the monkeys have taken their shenanigans a step further. They have been caught doing something ...

Still, many questions remain. And unraveling the mystery could be crucial, the researchers said. The howler population on Jicarón is an endangered subspecies of mantled howler monkeys, Alouatta ...

A recording dated January 26, 2022, first documented an unidentified young capuchin male carrying a howler monkey (Alouatta palliata coibensis) infant. The next day Joker was carrying that same ...

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 surprising ...

Over 15 months on Jicarón Island, researchers saw five capuchin juveniles abduct 11 endangered howler monkey infants — all for no clear purpose.

Young male capuchins have developed a strange trend of acquiring baby howler monkeys. It doesn't end well for the babies.

Capuchin monkeys on a remote Panamanian island are abducting babies from howler monkey families, in a first-of-its-kind trend. The wild population of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus ...

The behavior observed among a group of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator) is extraordinary: the kidnapped monkeys were babies of another species, Panamanian howler monkeys (Alouatta ...