BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport welcomed a very special new addition just in time for New Year’s Day. The zoo announced the birth of an endangered black-handed ...

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 — A group of Mexican spider monkeys have a new home at the Saint Louis Zoo after being rescued from illegal trade. Monday, the zoo said four of the endangered animals were seized by federal ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - Anyone can now visit the young Mexican spider monkeys living at the Saint Louis Zoo, but their journey was far from easy. Four young spider monkeys are now happily ...

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.

Henry Doorly Zoo is now home to four juvenile Mexican spider monkeys. A multi-organization rescue effort helped save the animals after they were confiscated from illegal wildlife trafficking, ...