Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animal siblings can really roughhouse with each other. There’s just something universal about the way siblings, whether they are ...

Spider monkeys live in fluid social groups that split and reform, allowing information about food sources to spread across the population. By moving between subgroups, individual monkeys help create a ...

Deep in the forests of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a story of animal intelligence and social cooperation has unfolded over the last decade. Researchers studying Geoffroy’s spider monkeys have ...

Finding fruit in a tropical forest is not simple. Fruit trees appear and disappear across seasons, and locations change often. Spider monkeys depend heavily on fruit, so success depends on smart ...

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When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to share what they know, according to a new study ...

Toni Skelton may get to keep her pet spider monkey in her Prairie Village home, but the permission to do so comes with a new set of rules that keeps the pet and its owners on a tighter leash. On ...

DOOR. CREWS GOT IT UNDER CONTROL. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. WELL, MONKEY BUSINESS IN PRAIRIE VILLAGE AND WE MEAN LITERALLY. CITY LEADERS BANNED ALL MONKEYS EXCEPT ONE. IT’S A JOKE. AT ISSUE, COULD A ...

Rescued Baby Spider Monkey (Image Credits: U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife) In an alarming reminder of the illegal wildlife trafficking crisis at the U.S.–Mexico border, Texas officials recently ...