Mexican narcos' fascination with exotic animals was on display this week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot was killed in a shootout, a 450-pound tiger wandered the streets in ...

Mexican authorities say 11 gang members died in the shootout with police last Tuesday. It is unclear why the apparent owner of the spider monkey had a plastic bucket on his head. Tributes for the ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican narcos' fascination with exotic animals was on display last week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot was killed in a shootout, a 450-pound tiger wandered ...

But unlike other narcocorridos, this one is a testament to the death of a tactical-vest-wearing spider monkey in a custom camo jacket. The monkey — referred to online as “El Chango,” or ...

A Texas woman has pleaded guilty to some monkey business at the US-Mexico border. Savannah Nicole Valdez, 20, was accused of smuggling a live spider monkey into the United States inside a beer box ...

A monkey wearing a bulletproof vest was found ... exotic animals have long been part of the Mexican criminal underworld. On June 15, the Attorney General for Environmental Protection said ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents testified in Dafar’s case and said Mexican spider monkey mothers will not give their babies up willingly. They are part of troops, and these troops of spider ...

Azules, a Mexican spider monkey, is being cared for at the Oakland Zoo. OAKLAND ZOO She is recovering. “Her upper respiratory infection is now resolved. She is following a healthy diet ...