A Grand Island resident is accused of illegally keeping a spider monkey as a pet, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

A spider monkey has been transported to a sanctuary after being kept as an illegal pet at a Grand Island home, the Department of Environmental Conservation said Friday. On April 14, investigators with ...

New York's DEC seized a spider monkey kept illegally as a pet on Grand Island, later found to suffer from a broken wrist and ...

Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern Mexico and selling them as pets on social media platforms in the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexican spider monkeys that were rescued from the illegal wildlife pet trade have settled in at their new home at the Nashville ...

To the editor: The recent case of a young spider monkey rescued during a drug bust in Vallejo highlights the urgent need to ban the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in this country (“Baby spider ...