An unsettling trend is rising in spider monkeys being poached and sold on social media, and officials from the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are on the case to stop this practice from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A traffic stop in California’s North Bay area led authorities to search a man’s home and find a spider monkey, rattlesnakes, and ...

A traffic stop in California’s North Bay area led authorities to search a man’s home and find a spider monkey, rattlesnakes, and over $25,000 worth of methamphetamine. Deputies in Vallejo, about 34 ...

SAN DIEGO — A Houston man has been sentenced to four months in custody for facilitating the smuggling of six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States from Mexico. 33-year-old Sarmad Ghaled ...

Study finds spider monkeys share ‘insider knowledge’ about this key aspect of life - Spider monkeys share their knowledge of ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

A spider monkey belonging to a Dallas-area influencer had a disease caused by malnutrition when police took him from his owner over the weekend, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track. So biologist Jenna Lawson hid 350 audio monitors in trees across Costa ...

A Grand Island resident is accused of illegally keeping a spider monkey as a pet, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Animal Services in Irving is leading an investigation into a Dallas social media influencer’s care of a spider monkey, officials said Friday. This as the primate named Jorgie Boy faces a long, ...

A new black-handed spider monkey (also called Geoffroy’s spider monkey) was born at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo on Dec. 18, the zoo announced in a news release. The baby is currently on display to ...