Officials say the rising trend of spider monkey babies being domesticated is the cause of these aggressive poachers.

BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo announced the birth of its first black-handed spider monkey since the 1980s this week. The zoo in Bridgeport said the infant was born to parents ...

IRVING — The future of Jorgie Boy, a spider monkey whose story has gone viral in North Texas, is up in the air as his former owner and an animal shelter fight for custody of the primate. Pets, even ...

Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern ...