A Pennsylvania man involved in an online animal torture ring that created and distributed graphic videos depicting abuse of ...

A coalition of wildlife organisations are urging peers to amend the Online Safety Bill in response to the growing practice of torturing animals for social-media videos. In recent months increasing ...

Between the Old World, which includes Africa and Asia, and the New World, which includes Mexico and Central and South America, there are well over 200 monkey species. Yet, nearly all species of baby ...

A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. In another video clip, a person plays with the ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody and ...

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...