Thousands of monkeys are thought to be purchased as pets More people are buying monkeys to keep as pets "than people imagine", says the owner of Wales' only monkey sanctuary. Keeping a pet monkey ...

Monkeys also get caught in traps set for pigs ... “macaques that escape traps may lose a limb to loss of circulation.” The local pet trade thrives on captured or orphaned baby macaques ...

The search is on for 43 missing monkeys in Yemassee after they escaped their enclosure at the Alpha Genisis research center, ...

People in England could be banned from keeping monkeys and other primates as pets, the government has said. Up to 5,000 are living outside licensed zoos in the UK, with animal welfare minister ...

NORTH TEXAS — It wasn't the first time Dwan and Andrew Johns rescued a spider monkey. Tarrant County's Funkey Monkey Ranch ...

A woman in Thrasher, Tennessee, told police a vervet money tried to attack her when she went to feed her cats. The monkey later died at the Chattanooga Zoo.