The fact that primates other than humans engage in homosexual behavior is well-documented. A recent study in Nature Ecology & ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One male and one female spider monkey were recovered by wildlife officials. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the ...

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Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby ...

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 ...

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 States. Senate Democrats block government ...

Spider monkeys are being trafficked from Mexico into Texas at an alarming rate, smuggled across the border much like drugs, wildlife officials say. The Texas-Mexico border has become a key corridor ...

The Erie Zoo welcomed a baby monkey. The baby, a lesser spot-nosed guenon whose gender isn't known yet, was born Oct. 8 to first-time mother Georgia and to father Nemo, zoo officials announced Oct. 9.

A 39-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute animal crush videos. The videos, which were shared online, showed baby monkeys being crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, ...

The Louisville Zoo is celebrating the birth of a colobus monkey, the first-ever to be born at the zoo.Zoo officials said 5-year-old Ate gave birth to a healthy infant early Sunday morning. The gender ...

In a letter sent Monday to Massachusetts lawmakers, actor Casey Affleck is urging a bill that would prohibit the separation of baby monkeys from their mothers for laboratory experiments, a practice ...