In this funny and adorable story, Cutis acts very strangely — he hides his bed sheet inside a black bag and quietly starts ...

Howler infant number 5 on the back of a juvenile capuchin carrier, who is using stone tools at an anvil site in a stream bed. Usually, this behavior in females is described as adoption, thought to be ...

Baby monkeys were seized at a border in northern Chile. Customs officials say the 5 primates were discovered at a traffic checkpoint near the border with Bolivia. Customs officials say they were found ...

Texas border patrol agents rescued seven endangered baby spider monkeys that were smuggled inside a backpack over the southern border. Video from an arrest in Brownsville on Thursday shows officials ...

Capuchin monkeys are mainly known for their intelligence and resourcefulness. However, scientists have come across a strange, new behavior among the primates: child abduction. Per Smithsonian, Zoë ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but 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, ...

It’s baby fever at the San Diego Zoo’s monkey habitats. Four infants — across three species of monkey — have been born in recent months, according to San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance officials. Two ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody and ...

A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry, ...

Two of six spider monkeys illegally brought into California are shown above with their troopmates where they are now living at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. (U.S. Attorney's Office) A Texas man was busted ...