Capuchin monkeys are just like you and me. In a wonderful mashup of funny and adorable, a researcher videotaped two capuchin monkeys being paid unequally for a task. One was given a cucumber for ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

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, ...

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These jockeys weigh only 6 pounds and they’re not riding horses — they’re riding dogs. Capuchin monkeys Gilligan and Burt and their race dog partners Luna and Ace are the stars of the Banana Derby.

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...