The Little River Zoo has a new addition to the family. A female black and white capuchin monkey, whose mother wasn't able to figure out caring for her baby, was born May 3. With summer bustling with ...

"This is her second baby, so she knows what she's doing," a Newquay Zoo keeper said of the monkey mom Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami's Jungle Island has a cute and cuddly new addition and is proudly showing off the new little fella. He is a new white-faced baby capuchin monkey born recently at the park, but ...

MIAMI (WFLA) – Jungle Island in South Florida is celebrating the birth of a capuchin monkey. The male primate was born weighing only 0.2 pounds. “He likes to copy certain facial gestures and exhibits ...

Wild capuchin monkeys have been kidnapping infant howler monkeys, putting them on their backs and taking them for a ride. The trend, which began with one male, spread to other members of the group, ...

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 ...

A new trend is catching on among bored young male capuchins: kidnapping baby howler monkeys, in what scientists say is the first time animals have been recorded stealing another species’ infants for ...

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 ...