An unsettling trend is rising in spider monkeys being poached and sold on social media, and officials from the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are on the case to stop this practice from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two of six spider monkeys illegally brought into California are shown above with their troopmates where they are now living at ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — According to the Department of Justice, a Houston man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling endangered baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States. Sarmad ...

Deep in the forests of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a story of animal intelligence and social cooperation has unfolded over the last decade. Researchers studying Geoffroy’s spider monkeys have ...

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, ...