Perth Zoo has celebrated the birth of a Bolivian squirrel monkey, a tiny infant weighing less than a banana, and born to parents Vivo and Tikan. The newborn has been spotted clinging tightly to its ...

A tiny baby monkey is a very big deal for Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. The newborn black-handed spider monkey was born just ...

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.

Violeta is an endangered Mexican spider monkey, about 18 months old, who was poached from the wild and smuggled into California, where it's illegal to keep primates as pets. (Oakland Zoo) On a recent ...

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 ...

On a recent day at the Oakland Zoo's animal hospital, across the bay from San Francisco, an endangered Mexican spider monkey leaps onto tree branches, climbs across platforms and swings on ropes in a ...

For most pet primates in the United States, life is marked by chronic stress, malnutrition and illness — if they survive at all. A bill in Congress would aim to make ownership of captive primates ...