This article originally published at Texas border sees big spike in baby spider monkey trafficking. The search for a famed ...

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 Dafar, ...

The videos, which were shared online, showed baby monkeys being crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled and mutilated. A federal judge in Cincinnati on Sept. 30 said the videos were among the ...

Wildlife trafficking is one of the largest illegal trades in the world. A baby spider monkey and two rattlesnakes were discovered at the home of a suspect who was busted for methamphetamine during a ...