On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a remarkable culture. White-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park use stone tools; and scientists have ...

Authorities seized two white-faced capuchins, while a howler monkey died in the attempted smuggling Two people have been accused of attempting to smuggle three monkeys into the Dominican Republic in ...

The team used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the El Niño drought to study the relationship between the endocrinologic stress response and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here a white-faced capuchin monkey perches on a tree branch in Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica. A group from the same ...

A capuchin named Joker started the apparent trend, leading researchers to suspect "there was something a little quirky about him, or that he was kind of lonely in a way.” Reading time 3 minutes A ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

"Monkey see, monkey do" has had distressing consequences for howler monkeys on a small island off the coast of Panama. Researchers say cameras set up to observe the sophisticated use of stone tools by ...

Authorities identified the monkeys as two white-faced capuchins and one howler monkey, which died during the smuggling attempt Two people have been accused of attempting to smuggle three live monkeys ...

While devastating for the monkeys and the researchers who have studied them for so long, Perry's team was able to make use of the environmental circumstances and samples collected from the six years ...

Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The ...