“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

Besides humans, very few mammals receive care from their fathers. But when species do, it may benefit their children. New ...

As humanity’s closest cousins in the animal kingdom, primates offer a fascinating look at complex social behavior in the wild ...

Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

They may creep some of us out (and you can bet that us includes yours truly), but we’ve all got our own little spot in the world, right? Anyway, I recently discovered that there may be a difference ...

For more than a century, scientists considered banded langurs, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling monkey, to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones.

They found another instance of a male capuchin monkey with a baby howler monkey dating back to January 2022. However, the other males didn’t seem to copy the behavior until five months later.

Scientists studying camera trap footage from Jicarón Island spotted something unusual: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler monkey on his back. Now, they’re trying to learn what it means.

Neither monkey are related, nor even of the same species. In fact, over the course of the 'tends and thousands of video footage and images', the all-male capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at ...

Monkey see, monkey do Although animals do sometimes adopt the young of other species that are lost or abandoned, this doesn't seem to be the case here, in part because of the sheer number of babies.

Capuchin monkeys kidnap babies of another species — and the deadly abductions are caught on camera May 19, 2025 / 12:35 PM EDT / CBS/AP ...

Over 15 months on Jicarón Island, researchers saw five capuchin juveniles abduct 11 endangered howler monkey infants — all for no clear purpose.