Police officers responded to an unusual situation in Missouri when they retrieved a spider monkey by the side of a highway. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that they successfully rescued ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Prairie Village is weighing a rather odd proposal: a full monkey ban — a change that could uproot a two-pound spider monkey from its family. Toni Skelton, who owns the ...

Around A.D. 275, an unlikely emissary arrived in the central Mexican city of Teotihuacan. A group of Maya brought a spider monkey as an exotic gift to help establish a formal relationship with the ...

A South Texas zoo that lies at the nexus of animal trafficking and animal rescue thanks to a booming exotic pet trade will soon be featured in an upcoming episode of an educational children’s ...