The rise in trafficking is being fueled by viral social media videos. Officials sound alarm as poachers hunt rare monkeys to ...

A truck carrying a bunch of "aggressive" monkeys overturned on a Mississippi highway, with the primates escaping, according ...

Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Gibbons, commonly called lesser apes, aren’t as well-known as some of their great ape cousins like ...

What starts off as a feel-good story about a vacationing family and their rescued chimp quickly spirals into bloody mayhem ...

Creation and distribution of media depicting animal torture was illegalized by the Animal Crush Prohibition Act of 2010.

A mother fiercely defended her eight-month-old after a man asked her to quiet her screaming baby in a restaurant, claiming he had sensitive hearing. The confrontation, filmed by the mom and shared on ...

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on ...

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on Instagram Wednesday that the renowned ...

A 39-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute animal crush videos. The videos, which were shared online, showed baby monkeys being crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, ...

The man pictured as a naked baby on the cover of Nirvana’s seminal second album argued that the band had engaged in child sex abuse imagery. By Derrick Bryson Taylor A federal judge dismissed a ...