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, ...

HOUSTON (WJW) – A Texas man was sentenced to prison for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States, prosecutors announced on Monday. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, was ...

A US-based online chat group is paying to watch videos of “monkey torture”, animal advocacy campaigners have discovered. Individuals can either buy their own private baby monkey or they join with ...

A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry, ...

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SAN DIEGO -- 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 and ...

Newly released photos, video and lab reports document years of mental health studies conducted on baby rhesus monkeys at two federally-funded labs in the National Institutes of Health Intramural ...

Baby monkeys have been tortured to death on film with viewers voting on which weapons they should be abused with. The monkey torture rings consist of hundreds of people encouraging members to carry ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

Between the Old World, which includes Africa and Asia, and the New World, which includes Mexico and Central and South America, there are well over 200 monkey species. Yet, nearly all species of baby ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago just got a whole lot cuter thanks to the arrival of a new baby squirrel monkey! And the best part? You can see this precious new arrival in person starting Friday, July 11, at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — According to the ...