P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

Last year, the zoo took in nearly two dozen baby Mexican spider monkeys and a kinkajou, or honey bear, which is a type of tropical rainforest mammal related to ringtails and raccoons. In past ...

Spider monkeys come in various colors, including black, brown, and white, and they inhabit the upper canopy of the tropical rainforest. The White-Cheeked Spider Monkey was listed as endangered after a ...

But for white-faced capuchin monkeys, established groups that travel and gather food together aren't exactly cheerful democracies. T1.E7 ∙ The Power of Rain Rainfall is a vital source of life in the ...

Image by Delgadillo Figueroa via Pexels This tarantula species is the largest spider in the world ... raised in the Amazon rainforest at Lake Sandoval, Peru, South America. Image by riverriver via ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six, rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said.

A spider monkey and nearly $1 million in cocaine were intercepted during two separate and unrelated enforcement actions at the Texas-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents say.

Two people are facing federal animal smuggling charges after they were caught attempting to bring a Mexican spider monkey into the country on Sunday, April 6. Angel Arturo-Hernandez and Ashile ...

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

HIDALGO, Texas (KVIA) -- CBP officers at the Hidalgo Port of Entry intercepted a spider monkey this weekend. Agriculture specialists at the Anzalduas International Bridge discovered the monkey Sunday.