A small island drifting in the Homosassa River has become home to a group of spider monkeys with a view of passing boats and ...

Lawmakers give their final approval to a bill that will hold owners of dangerous dogs accountable. A speedboat trying to ...

SAN DIEGO — A Houston man has been sentenced to four months in custody for facilitating the smuggling of six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States from Mexico. 33-year-old Sarmad ...

P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs a ...

A spider monkey and nearly $1 million in cocaine were intercepted during two separate and unrelated enforcement actions at the Texas-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents say.

As officials opened the backpack for an inspection, they discovered a spider monkey, an animal “prohibited from importation as pets,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. “Some monkeys ...

Border Patrol officers in Texas arrested two U.S. citizens after a spider monkey was found hidden inside a backpack. The spider monkey was taken to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. The ...

HIDALGO, Texas (KVIA) -- CBP officers at the Hidalgo Port of Entry intercepted a spider monkey this weekend. Agriculture specialists at the Anzalduas International Bridge discovered the monkey Sunday.

Two people are facing federal animal smuggling charges after they were caught attempting to bring a Mexican spider monkey into the country on Sunday, April 6. Angel Arturo-Hernandez and Ashile ...