In addition, primates are often traumatically taken from their mothers at a young age and kept in poor conditions that do not ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animal lovers are going bananas for Punch the baby monkey, who is learning to thrive amongst his primatial roommates. Punch, a ...

Some baby monkeys have different color hair than their parents. A number of langur species, including silvered leaf langurs, François’ langurs, and spectacled langurs, have dark grey to black hair as ...

Tokyo: In recent days, a baby monkey in a Japanese zoo has won hearts on social media. The baby monkey, named Punch, was left by his mother shortly after his birth. Soon, his story became one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that humans and primates share many common traits (and the vast majority of our DNA), but some monkey behaviors ...

A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry, ...

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 ...

A capuchin named Joker started the apparent trend, leading researchers to suspect "there was something a little quirky about him, or that he was kind of lonely in a way.” Reading time 3 minutes A ...

A baby monkey at a Japanese zoo has gone viral on social media after being seen growing attached to a stuffed animal. The young monkey, known as Punch-kun, has captured the hearts of the public after ...

SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody ...