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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TikTok viewers are sobbing over a heartbreaking video of rescuers pulling a baby monkey from her deceased mother. The team at International Animal Rescue in Nosara, Costa Rica, saved this baby monkey ...

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 ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

The baby Angolan colobus monkey, known for its striking fur, was born Saturday, marking the first birth of the species at ...

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 ...

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, ...