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

A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly ...

Electric shock is one of the biggest causes of death among wildlife in the country but a court ruling is a first step to making power lines safe ...

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, ...

Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins used a private email to discuss an NIH lab’s history of traumatizing baby monkeys as he sought to contain a brewing scandal and kept ...

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 ...

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 ...