The subsequent undercover operation that nabbed Valdez involved the sale of two keel-billed toucans and a Mexican spider ...

A man who tried smuggling a spider monkey via an international bridge for $200 has been indicted in a Laredo federal court, ...

Since March, the Gladys Porter Zoo in the border town of Brownsville has been struggling to have enough personnel and equipment to care for 18 infant Mexican spider monkeys and a howler monkey ...