On a remote island off Panama, a young capuchin monkey nicknamed Joker may have sparked one of the strangest behavioral trends primatologists have ever seen: kidnapping baby howler monkeys and carrying them around like prized possessions. What started as a one-off event quickly became a disturbing fad among other young males—with deadly consequences. Learn more: https://on.natgeo.com/4kmyIRw | National Geographic

Researchers studying white-faced capuchin monkeys on a small island in Panama have discovered a “very surprising” behavior: male capuchins abducting baby howler monkeys and carrying them on their backs. Footage filmed by trigger cameras from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior shows several monkeys at Jicaron Island between 2022 and 2023. “It looked so weird, it looked so wrong,” Meg Crofoot, the director of the Department for Ecology of Animal Societies, said. “Why is this capuchin carr

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