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

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

A search of the smuggler’s phone revealed communications, images and evidence ... The three monkeys seized in August 2023 underwent genetic testing at the San Diego Zoo, which confirmed that ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston, Texas was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days home ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston, Texas, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days of ...

An baby spider monkey (Credit: Getty Images) Investigators search the accomplice ... The three rescued monkeys were taken to the San Diego Zoo, where they needed to be quarantined to prevent ...

The monkeys have since been permanently housed at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago ... messaged potential customers on Facebook and sent photos of baby spider monkeys in diapers and under a heat ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...