Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

Paignton Zoo said the 18-year-old Diana monkey, named Akea, "defied medical odds" and delivered the healthy infant on Thursday. The zoo said the birth was a "critical milestone" for the conservation ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

The David Traylor Zoo in Emporia is mourning the loss of one of its resident New World monkeys. Hot Lips, a cotton-top ...

Akea, an 18-year-old female who was previously diagnosed with an ovarian tumour during her pregnancy, successfully gave birth ...

A Texas man was sentenced for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys, too young to be separated from their mothers, into ...

Eight endangered Fijian iguanas have arrived at their new home at the San Diego Zoo. The creatures were seized by Spanish ...

Formerly an Edwardian palm house, the butterfly house is now a rainforest home to butterflies, Koi carp, tortoises, and more ...

The crime was first discovered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials when they stopped one of Dafar’s co-conspirators ...

Zoo CEO Sigalit Hertz said that they believe the three individuals were "animal traffickers who knew exactly what to steal." ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar 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.