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... Primate pet ownership fuels a brutal industry. This bill ...

California treats most non-domesticated wildlife as restricted by default, which is just one reason why it has some of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real question is not the legality of having a pet monkey, but the ethics of keeping these creatures in captivity. Behind the ...

Adult female spider monkey Patty and one of four young spider monkeys who arrived at Saint Louis Zoo in spring 2025 after they were confiscated near the U.S. southern border walk through a tunnel at ...

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 ...

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 ...