This past October, residents of Mount Vernon, a neighborhood in South Africa, heard a commotion and found two troops of vervet monkeys clashing outside a snack shop on their street.

Two of six spider monkeys illegally brought into California are shown above with their troopmates where they are now living at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. (U.S. Attorney's Office) A Texas man was busted ...

Plango, a langur monkey with bright orange fur, was rescued by Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has been blessed with a new baby.

TikTok viewers are sobbing over a heartbreaking video of rescuers pulling a baby monkey from her deceased mother. The team at International Animal Rescue in Nosara, Costa Rica, saved this baby monkey ...

Between the Old World, which includes Africa and Asia, and the New World, which includes Mexico and Central and South America, there are well over 200 monkey species. Yet, nearly all species of baby ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago just got a whole lot cuter thanks to the arrival of a new baby squirrel monkey! And the best part? You can see this precious new arrival in person starting Friday, July 11, at ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — On June 8, in a part of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo visitors rarely see, the keepers and veterinary staff worked fast. They packed up the tiny, newborn monkey carefully and grabbed ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

The Los Angeles Zoo recently received a little surprise when a female Kikuyu colobus monkey on contraceptives gave birth on November 27th. The sex of hasn't been identified yet, but it weighed about a ...

A newborn survives an unthinkable wildlife encounter after villagers act fast, a diaper plays an unlikely role, and one ...