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A Texas man 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. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry, ...

A baby spider monkey is starting a new chapter at the Oakland Zoo after she was rescued by authorities during a methamphetamine bust in Solano County earlier this month. On May 6, Solano County ...

SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody ...

THANK YOU. THE HENRY DOORLY ZOO IS NOW HOME TO FOUR NEW MEXICAN SPIDER MONKEYS. WHILE THE ADDITION IS WELCOME, THE ANIMALS WERE RESCUED FROM AN ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING OPERATION. YEAH, THEY WENT ...

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 ...