Though they might look a bit like monkeys, northern white-cheeked gibbons ... When they are first born, baby gibbons cling tightly to their mother’s midsection, almost like a belt.

Baby red-tailed monkey Khari isn't camera shy. Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Zoo Khari was born in August at the zoo. White-handed gibbon Eros has a nosh. Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia ...

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said. Sarmad Ghaled ...

At Kadoorie wildlife centre, staff care for a baby gibbon that had recently been discovered in the hand luggage of a woman arriving in Hong Kong. "She actually had it inside her handbag," Idy Wong ...

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