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Monkey-Nappers! A Group of Capuchin Monkeys Caught on Camera With Abducted Baby Howler Monkeys

Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the reason for this behavior?

Caught in the act! 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

On Jicarón Island, in the Coiba National Park, off the western Pacific coast of Panama, white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator) are the subject of a long-term observational study that began in 2017, when researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) noticed a group of them habitually using stones as tools. To document this, they installed motion-triggered cameras, or camera traps, around the island to observe this and other behaviors.

Another primate species on the island are howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata coibensis); their name refers to their loud howls that can be heard up to 3 miles away (around 4.82 kilometers). Capuchins and howlers cohabitate mostly without issue because their diets are different, and therefore they do not compete for food.

However, since 2022, some of the immature male capuchin monkeys from…

New monkey species, orange-lipped Likweli monkey, known as 'branch shaker,' identified in DRC

International scientists, including researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Yale, have identified a new species of monkey with a silky black coat and orange cream skin around its mouth in the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

While the monkey has been seen before, both by locals who call it “Likweli” in one local dialect and “branch shaker” in another and by conservation field scientists who took a photo in 2008, it was not declared a new species until a paper published July 15 in the journal PLOS One determined they were distinct from other monkeys and named the species Colobus congoenisis.

Co-author of the paper Junior Amboko chose the name to recognize “the Congo Basin’s remarkable natural heritage and, we believe, marking the first primate named after the Democratic Republic of Congo itself - underscoring both its global importance and local pride,” Amboko said in a statement. 

The photo in 2008 was far from enough to study the species, not even containing the whole animal, and the Likweli monkey was not seen again until 2018, when field researcher and co-author of the paper, Jean Pierre Kapale, managed to photograph one, according to Smithsonian. 

Kapale…