Sarmad Ghaled Dafar 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.

Also known as nagapies, which means “night monkeys” in Afrikaans ... The animals are ace jumpers, using powerful legs and extremely long tails to spring great distances.

Spider monkeys are large New World monkeys that ... which get their name from the way their long limbs and tails resemble spider legs as they dangle from branches and swing through the treetops.

red-tailed guenons and black-cheeked white-nosed monkeys. Guenons are characterized by large cheek pouches used for storing food during foraging and distinguished by their long, chestnut-colored ...

(WJW) — Officials with Florida‘s Brevard Zoo said they are heartbroken after a “chance accident” led to a baby spider ... for ...

“This crime ripped weeks-old baby monkeys from their mothers ... named for their habit of dangling from trees using their long tails. They are among the 25 most threatened primates in the ...