On April 14, investigators with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Bureau of Environmental Crimes unit in Erie County responded to a report about a Grand Island resident ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A spider monkey has been transported to a sanctuary after being kept as an illegal pet at a Grand Island home, the Department of Environmental Conservation said Friday. On April ...

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WKBW) — A Grand Island resident is accused of illegally keeping a spider monkey as a pet, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC said on ...

This was a real order of monkey business. A Connecticut zoo asked for help naming its baby spider monkey — and revealed the winning moniker on Facebook Friday. The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport created ...

A Connecticut zoo asked for help naming its baby spider monkey — and revealed the winning moniker on Facebook Friday. The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport created an online poll so the public could help ...

Animal siblings can really roughhouse with each other. There's just something universal about the way siblings, whether they are bonded by blood or of the found family variety, can "monkey" around and ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport welcomed a very special new addition just in time for New Year’s Day. The zoo announced the birth of an endangered black-handed ...

A new black-handed spider monkey (also called Geoffroy’s spider monkey) was born at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo on Dec. 18, the zoo announced in a news release. The baby is currently on display to ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Prairie Village is weighing a rather odd proposal: a full monkey ban — a change that could uproot a two-pound spider monkey from its family. Toni Skelton, who owns the ...

Spider monkeys are being trafficked from Mexico into Texas at an alarming rate, smuggled across the border much like drugs, wildlife officials say. The Texas-Mexico border has become a key corridor ...

A spider monkey named Ava escaped from her owner's home in Eutawville, South Carolina. The monkey was spotted near a local festival, prompting the town clerk to help capture her. The monkey was safely ...