White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

The work is part of the project “Effects of social dynamics on the diffusion of new behaviors in groups of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) inhabiting the Caatinga of the Serra da Capivara ...

A Space Odyssey"; the Gigantopithecus in "The Jungle Book" (2016); and the capuchin monkey in "Night at the Museum," with Ben Stiller. Mayor is a primatologist and explorer who has gone on ...