Video footage from a small island of Panama between 2022 and 2023 shows capuchin monkeys carrying at least 11 howler babies, a different species. In the videos, the baby howler monkeys cling to ...

Scientists are at a loss for what’s making the capuchin monkeys steal babies of a different species. Both monkeys have different diets, so food competition wouldn’t be an issue.

The capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023, ... Goldsborough initially found four different howler infants being carried.

But in this case, abducting and carrying infants from a different species seems to provide no gain or benefit for the capuchin monkeys. Some of the abducted infant howler monkeys were younger than ...

Capuchins and howlers cohabitate mostly without issue because their diets are different, and therefore they do not compete for food. However, since 2022, some of the immature male capuchin monkeys ...

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.