A Pan African Sanctuary Alliance analysis flags chacma baboons as the most frequently recorded primate in legal international ...

Sally was being kept in a trailer, tied to a bed with 10-pound weights, when the 15-year-old girl and her mother first gazed upon the Capuchin monkey after driving from Alabama to Satsuma, a small ...

The surge in imports of wild macaques to Canada followed China’s suspension of primate exports during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses today’s reintroduction in Congress of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in the ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses yesterday’s reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in the United ...

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 ...

The demand for pet primates in the U.S. fuels a brutal underground market. But a new bill in Congress aims to change that by creating a national ban on privately owning and breeding these animals.

To the editor: The recent case of a young spider monkey rescued during a drug bust in Vallejo highlights the urgent need to ban the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in this country (“Baby spider ...

WEBSTER — The Chase Rescue Sanctuary is anything but quiet. Eight ring-tailed lemurs run free in an indoor playground, bounding up rope ladders, vaulting onto swings, climbing across rafters and ...

The real question is not the legality of having a pet monkey, but the ethics of keeping these creatures in captivity. From our readers: ...

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 ...