
Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists
Lauren Leffer
created: May 19, 2025, 3 p.m. | updated: May 29, 2025, 3 p.m.
‘We have never observed anything like this’These instances of interspecies abduction are the first-ever documented among male capuchins.
In contrast, the howler infants on Jicarón seem to have been purposefully taken from attentive parents in quick succession.
Howler infant number 10 on the back of a subadult capuchin carrier who is using stone tools at an anvil site.
Goldsborough first spotted a capuchin carrying a howler infant in footage from January 2022.
In the video, a juvenile male capuchin is carrying howler infant number 1 on his chest.
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