Climate change is driving capuchin monkey mothers to abandon their infants
Plants, insects, and larger animals, like the forest’s white-faced capuchin monkeys, are well adapted to these changes. But in 2015, during an abnormally severe drought influenced by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Perry , an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, observed behaviors that once seemed impossible.…
bubmagJune 27, 2026