Capuchin monkeys are abducting baby howlers. But why?
Автор: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Загружено: 2025-05-19
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On a remote island in Panama, cameras have captured capuchin monkeys developing a bizarre “fad” of abducting baby howlers.
Goldsborough et al., (2025) Rise and spread of a social tradition of interspecies abduction. Current Biology 35, R1-R3. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
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 been monitoring this unique tradition with an array of motion-triggered cameras on the island since 2017. In 2022, doctoral researcher Zoë Goldsborough was looking through the camera trap footage when she found an unusual sighting, something they had never seen in the previous five years of data: a capuchin monkey carrying an infant howler monkey on his back.
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