Sarmad Ghaled Dafar 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.

Imagine standing in the heart of the African savanna, the air thick with anticipation and the chorus of wild sounds. Suddenly ...

BANGKOK — Many long-tailed macaques imported into the United States from Southeast Asia were likely poached from the wild and ...

Some shepherds built concrete enclosures around the springs, blocking the monkeys’ access to the water. Camperio Ciani says the macaques then turned to eating the tops of cedar trees to get at ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical human signs of grief, such as lethargy and appetite loss ...

Radio X Best of British 2025 Results Revealed… This Easter Monday, Radio X listeners have crowned ‘Live Forever’ by Oasis as ...

Primatologists and conservation organizations have launched a 10-year action plan to improve the outlook for langur monkeys in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region of Southeast Asia that spans ...

“On the morrow,” the King concluded, “we march to Kanya Kumari (Cape Comorin) the southernmost point of India. Now go home ...

PETA, which opposes the use of animals for research, said the monkeys could have been given to caretakers or sanctuaries. “Experiments on animals fail to produce cures and treatments for humans ...

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 ...

These monkeys had mpox, the infection caused by the monkeypox virus, a potentially deadly virus similar to the ones that cause smallpox and cowpox. Mpox gets its name from the lab monkeys in which ...