Violeta the baby spider monkey is beginning a new chapter at the Oakland Zoo after she was rescued by authorities during a methamphetamine bust in Solano County.

PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica — The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track. So biologist Jenna Lawson hid 350 ...

Earlier this year, during a different traffic stop in Madera, California Highway Patrol officers found a spider monkey riding in the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce driving down Highway 99.