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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

Spider monkeys live in fluid social groups that split and reform, allowing information about food sources to spread across the population. By moving between subgroups, individual monkeys help create a ...

Spider monkeys possess a sophisticated social system, sharing "insider knowledge" about the best fruit trees in the forest rather than foraging randomly, new research has found. Scientists discovered ...

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 ...