Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Primatologist Susan Perry of UCLA has spent much of the past 35 years studying the complex social lives of white-faced capuchin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarón Island, ...

A capuchin monkey sits on a kitchen countertop while holding and eating pieces of flatbread. The monkey uses both hands to ...

The semi-arid region of northeast Brazil offers little for a monkey to eat, except for a variety of hard-shelled fruits and seeds. So when capuchins arrived in this region about half a million years ...

High up in the canopy of the Brazilian rainforest, clinging unsteadily to its mother's back, a wild newborn bearded capuchin monkey with a non-functioning left leg was beating the odds. Observations ...

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a capuchin monkey for the first time, uncovering new genetic clues about the evolution of their long lifespan and large brains.

Tool-using Capuchin monkeys from Jicarón Island have been captured on-camera carrying kidnapped howler monkey infants. On Jicarón Island, in the Coiba National Park, off the western Pacific coast of ...

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