Across the United States, a patchwork of bans and crackdowns reveals the hidden dangers of keeping some animals as pets.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska is famous for wildlife: moose, bear, whales. Not capuchin monkeys and kinkajous. And the Alaska Board of Game wants it to stay that way. The board considers exotic pet ...

Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the reason for this behavior? Vanessa Crooks Caught in the act! Capuchin monkeys ...

The black-capped capuchin monkey, named "Neo," was seized from Kordes' Westwood home in February by local animal control. The reason, according to a search warrant: A veterinarian in Florida had seen ...

HALLANDALE BEACH (CBSMiami) – Over three weeks, roughly 80,000 people will come through the gates of the Broward County Fair. Animal rights activists, however, say something going on there is very ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — A man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say his pet got into his drugs. We're not talking about a dog or a cat, though. The charges stem from a pet capuchin monkey.

Punta Gorda Fire Officials said around 9:45 p.m. on Monday, the Walck family made an emergency stop at their station on ...

CINCINNATI — A man has been indicted for one count of cruel treatment of animals after he allegedly gave his pet monkey amphetamines. Adam Kordes, 34, was arrested March 4 after an investigation by ...

Animal control officials in North Carolina say that a monkey was struck by a car after it escaped from a local zoo A capuchin monkey was struck near Troutman, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 23, after it ...

Iredell County Animal Services (ICAS) warned residents not to “capture, chase or interact with the monkey” if they spot it A Troutman resident captured footage of the wild animal monkeying around on a ...

Source: Wald1siedel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Across the animal kingdom, numerous species engage in a behavior known as anointing. This is where animals rub ...