The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile, which means “capable of grasping.” It is generally longer than the animal’s body and acts as a fifth limb—an adaptation to life in the tree canopy. It can ...

Two young spider monkeys confiscated from wildlife traffickers arrived at a Utah zoo too young to survive without their ...

"Our colleagues at the Gladys Porter Zoo performed the initial round-the-clock work required to save these infants." ...

This was a real order of monkey business. A Connecticut zoo asked for help naming its baby spider monkey — and revealed the winning moniker on Facebook Friday. The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport created ...

When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to share what they know, according to a new study ...

A Basehor neighbor says four pet spider monkeys next door violate city code banning dangerous animals.

Utah’s Hogle Zoo is welcoming Romina and Eve, two young spider monkeys that were confiscated from wildlife traffickers. The monkeys come from the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, TX, which helped ...

June 25 (UPI) --Authorities in Mexico responded to the break room of an office building to wrangle an unusual trespasser -- a spider monkey. Mexico's Attorney General for Environmental Protection, or ...

A little bit of monkey business has one Kansas neighborhood in a tizzy. Residents are trying to get the City of Basehor to ...

A growing black market is tearing spider monkey families apart in southern Mexico, where poachers are killing adults and snatching their babies to sell as exotic pets in the United States—often ...

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