SAN ANTONIO, May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 5, 2025, the Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. 3199/S. 1594) — legislation that would ban the private ownership of primates in the United States — was ...

What appears to be a cozy bedtime for a baby monkey is actually a living experiment in evolutionary biology. The ritualized ...

Captive Primate Safety Act aims to curb illegal pet trade in the U.S. On a recent day at the Oakland Zoo's animal hospital, across the bay from San Francisco, an endangered Mexican spider monkey leaps ...

An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia is sickening and killing rare and threatened monkey species in captivity, a new study shows. Between February and May 2025, authorities reported eight ...

Wildlife trafficking is one of the world's biggest illegal trades, and the U.S. creates much of the demand for pet primates. Now there's a proposed ban on privately owning and breeding these animals.

Jorgie Boy the captive spider monkey is back with his owner, who is apparently ecstatic after her “pet” was seized by Irving Animal Control. We aren’t so sure about Jorgie Boy’s feelings on the matter ...

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, ...