Video: Monkeys have caught the kidnapping of baby trees from another species

Scientists have found surprising video evidence of what they call Monkey -and they try to find out why.

Video material from a small island of Panama between 2022 and 2023 shows Capuchin monkeys with at least 11 howler babies, a different kind. In the videos, the Howler monkeys cling to the back of the male capuchin monkeys.

Why did Capuchin monkeys kidnap other monkeys?

What we know:

Researchers from Max Planck and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute had set up more than 80 cameras to examine the use of Capuchins in Capuchin, and so they saw how the first howl babies appeared in early 2022.

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Capuchins are house cat-size monkeys in South America and Central America. They are durable, clever and learn new behaviors. A group of Capuchins in Panama even learned to use stone tools to crack nuts and seafood.

The film material showed that the Capuchins went on their backs with baby hats and knocked their stone tools. There were no signs of deliberate aggression towards the babies and they were not eaten, which excluded predators.

In most or in all cases, the baby died, researchers said. Howler monkeys for children would usually be worn by their mothers during care. All babies in the video – from a few weeks to a few months in old age – were too young to be weaned.

What we don't know:

Scientists still don't know why the capuchin monkeys kidnapped the baby. Cameras did not capture the moments of kidnapping that scientists had probably appeared in the trees, where He howler spend most of the time.

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One theory is that the first baby snatcher may have had a confused “caring motivation” or her parents' instinct because he showed a gentleness with the infants. Then four other men copied his actions.

The researchers said they did not believe that the Capuchins intentionally injured the babies. So far, only one group of Capuchins has been kidnapped by Capuchins.

What you say:

“This was a shocking knowledge,” said Zoë Goldsborough, behavior ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Germany. “We haven't seen anything like this in the animal kingdom.”

“We spent every hour to disperse into our brain why they would do that,” said Goldsborough.

Grab deeper:

The videos recorded some cases of young Capuchin men who still wore howler babies who had died, probably hungry. Many animals – from gorillas to orcas – were observed how they wore their own dead descendants, although scientists are not sure why they are doing it.

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