A growing black market is tearing spider monkey families apart in southern Mexico, where poachers are killing adults and ...

Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern ...

Officials say the rising trend of spider monkey babies being domesticated is the cause of these aggressive poachers.

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 ...

The Texas-Mexico border has become a key corridor for the illegal trade in exotic animals, with spider monkeys among the most ...