Rufus net-casting spiders can tune the stiffness and elasticity of their webs thanks to loops of silk, scanning electron ...

Toni Skelton may get to keep her pet spider monkey in her Prairie Village home, but the permission to do so comes with a new set of rules that keeps the pet and its owners on a tighter leash. On ...

DOOR. CREWS GOT IT UNDER CONTROL. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. WELL, MONKEY BUSINESS IN PRAIRIE VILLAGE AND WE MEAN LITERALLY. CITY LEADERS BANNED ALL MONKEYS EXCEPT ONE. IT’S A JOKE. AT ISSUE, COULD A ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport welcomed a very special new addition just in time for New Year’s Day. The zoo announced the birth of an endangered black-handed ...

A new black-handed spider monkey (also called Geoffroy’s spider monkey) was born at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo on Dec. 18, the zoo announced in a news release. The baby is currently on display to ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Prairie Village is weighing a rather odd proposal: a full monkey ban — a change that could uproot a two-pound spider monkey from its family. Toni Skelton, who owns the ...

Spider monkeys are being trafficked from Mexico into Texas at an alarming rate, smuggled across the border much like drugs, wildlife officials say. The Texas-Mexico border has become a key corridor ...

A spider monkey named Ava escaped from her owner's home in Eutawville, South Carolina. The monkey was spotted near a local festival, prompting the town clerk to help capture her. The monkey was safely ...

EUTAWVILLE — Most monkeys like bananas. Ava prefers a hot cup of coffee. The pet spider monkey escaped her owner and roamed free in Orangeburg County for a day last week before being captured by a ...

Video and documents released to CBS News Texas by the Pelican Bay Police Department describe a cute furry Mexican spider monkey as a wild, dangerous animal that must go before a judge on Thursday in ...

Brown spider monkeys (Ateles hybridus) are some of the world’s most threatened primates, as deforestation has razed about 85% of their habitat in Colombia. With monkey populations living in patches of ...

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 ...