A Connecticut zoo announced the birth of a female black-handed spider monkey -- and officials are now asking the public to ...

This was a real order of monkey business. A Connecticut zoo asked for help naming its baby spider monkey — and revealed the ...

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 ...

A few months after being born, one of the newest monkeys at a Connecticut zoo still needs a name.

Hattiesburg Zoo welcomes four rescued spider monkeys after US border smuggling attempt. AZA, Species Survival Program aid primate welfare, highlight pet trade risks.

Spider monkeys live in fluid social groups that split and reform, allowing information about food sources to spread across the population. By moving between subgroups, individual monkeys help create a ...

The spider monkey, believed to be 1 month old, has since been taken to the Oakland Zoo, according to authorities Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A baby spider monkey is starting a new chapter at the Oakland Zoo after she was rescued by authorities during a methamphetamine bust in Solano County earlier this month. On May 6, Solano County ...