A sleepy capuchin monkey yawns widely with its tongue out while sitting near a red hair dryer, creating an adorable moment.

Capuchin monkeys have been monkey-napping baby howler monkeys in Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park, off the coast of Panama. Brendan J. Barrett, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior ...

The latest group of activists are organizing in a years-long push to send Frankie, a capuchin monkey living in a pet store, ...

A capuchin monkey using tools with a howler monkey clinging to his side. The howler is just one or two days old. (Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) ...

This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarón Island, Panama in September 2022. (Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute ...

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 ...

Capuchin using a stick to probe the ground for food. Capuchin Culture Project in Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61243-8 Capuchin monkeys are omnivores whose diet in the wild ...

By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin.

They found that, starting with Joker, four subadult and juvenile male capuchin monkeys had abducted at least 11 infant howler monkeys between January 2022 and March 2023.