Up to 5,000 pet monkeys face seizure under England's new primate ban as strict zoo-level standards and licensing rules take ...

Violeta is an endangered Mexican spider monkey, about 18 months old, who was poached from the wild and smuggled into California, where it's illegal to keep primates as pets. (Oakland Zoo) On a recent ...

Directed by Johannes Roberts and co-written with Ernest Riera, the film centers on chimpanzee Ben, domesticated by a well-meaning family. The movie charts his violent descent after contracting rabies.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real question is not the legality of having a pet monkey, but the ethics of keeping these creatures in captivity. Behind the ...

On a recent day at the Oakland Zoo's animal hospital, across the bay from San Francisco, an endangered Mexican spider monkey leaps onto tree branches, climbs across platforms and swings on ropes in a ...

For most pet primates in the United States, life is marked by chronic stress, malnutrition and illness — if they survive at all. A bill in... Primate pet ownership fuels a brutal industry. This bill ...