Officials say the rising trend of spider monkey babies being domesticated is the cause of these aggressive poachers.

In the U.S., rescued spider monkeys are being cared for at facilities like the Gladys Porter Zoo in Texas, while the ...

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, ...

Spider monkeys, once part of illegal trafficking, are now “flourishing” at their new home in a California zoo, officials said. In August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Calexico port of ...

Plango, a langur monkey with bright orange fur, was rescued by Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Newly released photos, video and lab reports document years of mental health studies conducted on baby rhesus monkeys at two federally-funded labs in the National Institutes of Health Intramural ...

Brevard Zoo has welcomed multiple baby animals this spring and summer, including spider monkeys, babirusa piglets, a King vulture, zebras and most recently, three impalas. Apart from the zebra foals, ...

A monkey snatched and killed a month-old baby as he was being breastfed in Tanzania. Shayima Said had been feeding her child outside when the troop of monkeys invaded her house in the Mwamgongo ...