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Blond capuchin monkey Capuchin monkey When it comes to preparing a meal, the blonde capuchin monkey, a critically endangered primate living in Brazil's Mata Atlantica region, has quite the repertoire.

Way back in 1648, a naturalist named Georg Marcgrave published a description [PDF] of a blonde, long-haired capuchin species, but he didn’t collect a specimen, so its identity remained a mystery.

In 2022 and 2023, several male Capuchin monkeys in Panama were spotted with babies on their backs, which is not that unusual in itself. Upon closer inspection, however, biologists noticed that ...

The blonde capuchin's diet consists of fruits, spiders, small vertebrates, an occasional sweet sip of sugar cane, and insects, including termites. And they've nearly perfected termite fishing.

A woman made it through a Laredo international bridge and a Laredo Sector checkpoint with two capuchin monkeys before being pulled over for a traffic violation in La Salle County, according to an ...

Brendan Barrett This photo provided by researchers shows a baby howler monkey clinging onto a young adult male capuchin monkey on Jicarón Island, Panama in September 2022. (Brendan Barrett/Max ...

But the blond capuchin disappeared for centuries, only to be re-discovered in 2006. The remaining populations is threatened by habitat loss, as well as hunting for food and as pets.

Marmosets don’t figure on the list of endangered animals, but blond capuchin – a species of the capuchin monkeys group -- does. And it was this species which was offered to this reporter when ...

Blond capuchin monkeys of the Brazilian forests use a special technique — smack, swirl, eat — as they fished termites out of trees, a new study of the critically endangered primates shows.