Capuchin monks are a Roman Catholic religious community, a branch of the Order of Friars Minor — the Franciscans. Their characteristic habits are light brown. Capuchin nuns wear the brown habit plus a ...

A crane game filled with raisins was left in the monkey pen at Japanese zoo Nagasaki Bio Park, to see if the animals could figure out how to use the redemption game to get snacks. The crane game was ...

A man from Cincinnati, Ohio, has demanded to have his emotional support monkey returned to him following accusations he drugged the animal. Adam Kordes, 34 , had his black-capped capuchin monkey, also ...

From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artefacts. The mental representation of symbols – objects that arbitrarily represent other objects – ...

A monkey that was injured trying to protect his offspring during a break-in at a Kansas zoo last month has died. Vern, a 32-year-old tufted capuchin monkey at the Wright Park Zoo in Dodge City died ...

A monkey that was injured last month trying to protect his offspring from being taken by an intruder during an apparent break-in at a Kansas zoo has died.Officials at the Wright Park Zoo in Dodge City ...

Like children who complain "no fair," capuchin monkeys throw fits when their companions get better treats. In a new study, envy reared its ugly head if capuchins, primates like us, landed slices of ...