Camera trap footage from Jicarón Island revealed a male capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on its back. Now, scientists are trying to understand what's driving this kidnapping behavior. - ...

Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason. By Elizabeth Landau Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang out with ...

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - George and Kerri Barnett said they were in the car with their two sons Monday night, headed to visit George’s mother, when Kerri saw a rhesus monkey crossing the street.

Sept. 18 -- It turns out monkeys, like people, are no fools when it comes to equal pay for equal work. A new study found when brown capuchin monkeys noticed their partners were getting a better reward ...

The Puerto Rican island of Cayo Santiago is home to one of the world’s oldest and most unusual primate research colonies. CAYO SANTIAGO, Puerto Rico — In the distance, beneath dark, billowy clouds, I ...

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(CNN) — 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, ...