Primatologist Susan Perry of UCLA has spent much of the past 35 years studying the complex social lives of white-faced capuchin monkeys, at a field site she established in one of the remaining patches ...

Howler infant number 5 on the back of a juvenile capuchin carrier, who is using stone tools at an anvil site in a stream bed. Usually, this behavior in females is described as adoption, thought to be ...

Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The ...

A howler monkey infant, only a few days old, clings to a subadult white-faced capuchin monkey as it uses tools. Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior In June 2022, while watching ...

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 ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A baby howler monkey clung ...