Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby ...

Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern Mexico and selling them as pets on social media platforms in the United ...

Spider monkeys are being trafficked from Mexico into Texas at an alarming rate, smuggled across the border much like drugs, wildlife officials say. The Texas-Mexico border has become a key corridor ...

TikTokers are showing off their baby spider monkeys in cute outfits and diapers, but how they're getting them is alarming officials U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Facebook U.S. officials ...

While the Joro spider season, which spans from August to October, is over, these creepy crawlies can still pop up ...

Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern Mexico and selling them as pets on social media platforms in the United States. Senate Democrats block government ...

A new investigation reveals that the growing popularity of spider monkeys as pets, driven by influencers posting content treating them like human children, is fueling an illegal wildlife trade. Spider ...

Halloween decorations are getting pretty realistic, but the monkey swinging through the rafters at a Spirit Halloween in Texas was all too real. On Monday, Oct. 27, a pet monkey and its owner were in ...

In a collaboration, CBS NEWS and INSIDE EDITION investigate the growing trend of endangered baby spider monkeys being trafficked, driven in part, experts say, by people showing them off on social ...

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. - Tulane University continued to distance itself from several escaped monkeys on Wednesday. A truck carrying 21 Rhesus Macaques crashed on I-59 in Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon ...

Tulane University has released a few additional details in an updated statement. WDAM 7 originally asked the university if they were transporting the monkeys, and if not, then who their owner was. Our ...