Earlier this year, four juvenile spider monkeys smuggled into the US in lunch boxes arrived at a Mississippi zoo, where they ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern Mexico and selling them as pets on social media platforms in the United ...

PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica — 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 ...

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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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Animal Care Services said a young spider monkey was discovered wandering a northwest-side neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. ACS said the approximately six-month-old monkey was ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — A traffic stop in California earlier this month led authorities to search a man’s home, where they found a spider monkey, rattlesnakes and more than $25,000 worth of methamphetamine.

When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to share what they know, according to a new study ...