Recently, the Groves' Titi monkeys have been venturing out beyond the boundaries of the Amazon rainforest where they live, and it's all thanks to deforestation. The species are listed as ...

P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

Spider monkeys are important seed dispersers for their rainforest homes. When animals eat fruit and nuts from trees and then go on their merry way, they eventually defecate the seeds and spread ...

The encounter inspired Schlindwein to launch a reforestation drive to open a corridor for the monkeys to swing tree-by-tree back into the rainforest. "This little creature is endangered.

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled ...

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 ...

Adventurer Guy Grieve and primatologist Julie Anderson spend six weeks in the Central Africal rainforest, trying to save one of the world's rarest monkeys.