A Connecticut zoo announced the birth of a female black-handed spider monkey -- and officials are now asking the public to ...

MIAMI — A South Florida zoo has recently been credited with discovering a new species of spider. Zoo Miami announced that one of its staff members helped in identifying a new species of trapdoor ...

Zoo welcomes four rescued spider monkeys after US border smuggling attempt. AZA, Species Survival Program aid primate welfare ...

The Oakland Zoo is taking care of a female spider monkey seized Thursday by the Solano County Sheriff's Office during a narcotics raid in Vallejo. Named Violeta by zoo staff, she's reportedly about 18 ...

Tarantulas - those big, hairy, eight-legged spiders featured in horror movies - aren't exactly adored by everyone. But it turns out tarantulas and other creepy animals have friends on the North Coast.

EL PASO, TX -- A woman seen on video inside a spider monkey enclosure at the El Paso Zoo has since been fired from her job, ABC's El Paso affiliate KVIA reports. The video was recorded May 22. It ...

Butch, a beloved patriarch and fixture at the Peoria Zoo, has died, the zoo announced Thursday, June 12. Zoo staff are mourning the black-handed spider monkey, who was 52 and the oldest known of his ...

ST. LOUIS – At the Saint Louis Zoo in Primate Canopy Trails, a series of walkways and paths take visitors up close with four new, endangered spider monkeys. “We have Ozomatli, Chico, Xochitl, and Cula ...

The four spider monkeys were nearly smuggled in lunch boxes over the border, but they now call the Hattiesburg Zoo home.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet Jabari, a black-handed spider monkey, and Belize, a black spider monkey, at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe. They certainly have personalities! Zookeeper ...