In 2021, the woolly monkey pet trade became the basis of a high-profile legal battle in Ecuador. The case centered on a gray woolly monkey named Estrellita, who lived as a pet for 18 years before ...

That included Kaia and Maia, their New World monkeys. The petite primates won't grow to more than a few pounds each, and in unincorporated Horry County the couple could legally keep them as pets.

The illegal trade in live chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau is more widespread than current data indicates, scientists believe, ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)—the company behind a massive monkey-breeding facility ... currently ...

Herman says owning spider monkeys is illegal in California and they are highly endangered. “Legal or not legal, you know, killing an animal’s family to harvest them for the wild and devastated.