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 ...

Deep in the forests of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a story of animal intelligence and social cooperation has unfolded over the last decade. Researchers studying Geoffroy’s spider monkeys have ...

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 ...

He went straight to the snacks!

A few months after being born, one of the newest monkeys at a Connecticut zoo still needs a name. Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo is holding an online poll, where individuals can vote to decide the name ...

City leaders approved a temporary agreement with firefighters that keeps current pay and benefits in place through the end of September, buying time for both si Chicks and bunnies may be cute Easter ...

A Pelican Bay woman, who told CBS News Texas that she is known by many as the "monkey woman," is willing to relinquish her furry companion, Abu. Carmen, whose first name we're using for now, faces no ...

EUTAWVILLE, S.C. (WIS) - A spider monkey hanging on the side of a building isn’t something you’d normally see every day - especially in the small town of Eutawville. Eutawville Town Clerk Casey Hill ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport welcomed a very special new addition just in time for New Year’s Day. The zoo announced the birth of an endangered black-handed ...

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 ...