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 footage doesn’t show the moment the babies ...

Capuchin monkeys are mainly known for their intelligence and resourcefulness. However, scientists have come across a strange, new behavior among the primates: child abduction. Per Smithsonian, Zoë Goldsborough, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the infants of another monkey species, seemingly just for kicks.