A baby brown-headed spider monkey named Anku was born on Jan. 22 ... wildlife trade are also major threats the spider monkeys face. And while hunting them is illegal for most Ecuadorians ...

A group of white-faced capuchins on a remote island have started stealing infants from another primate species, and ...

A man who sold a capuchin monkey to Chris Brown has been sentenced to five years probation. Jimmy Hammonds, a Florida man also known as “The Monkey Whisperer,” illegally sold the animal to ...

The pair each face charges of conspiracy to violate the ... with crimes related to the illegal sale of a capuchin monkey to Brown. Prosecutors said Brown purchased the animal for more than $ ...

The owner of an exotic animal breeding business in Florida has been sentenced to five years’ probation for illegally selling a capuchin monkey to singer Chris Brown. A federal indictment doesn ...

More recent genetic studies suggest there are only two species—the Peruvian yellow-tailed and the common (or brown) woolly monkey. The gray, Columbian, and silvery woolly monkeys were ...

Hammonds, who is best known for selling a capuchin monkey to Chris Brown, is blocked from legally selling primates for the pet trade for at least a year. “Exotic animals are not pets ...