A tiny monkey that went viral on social media for his human-like face is not lucky in love ... the 19-year-old tufted capuchin has been stuck a “bachelor” for his whole life.

The trainer is teaching the monkey, step by step, to rub a human’s face. It’s one of many tasks that capuchins learn at Monkey College, the training center run by the non-profit Helping Hands.

Capuchins even bite a tuft of hair from another’s face and pass it around with their mouths. This might all be about reinforcing social bonds [PDF]. Just don’t try it with your coworkers.

Camera traps caught Joker, nicknamed for the scar on his face, and other male white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator) carrying kidnapped howler monkey infants on their backs. Researchers ...

Bearded capuchin monkeys from Brazil use tools made of quartz, limestone, sandstone and wood as anvils and hammers to crack open various nuts, and young monkeys observe how the older, more ...