Monkey Jungle got its start in the ’30s when Joseph DuMond released a troop of monkeys into a dense patch of South Dade wilderness and then opened it as a one-of-a-kind attraction “where humans are ...

MIAMI -- King is scheduled for three shows a day, every day. But even after 20 years, he's not much of a performer. So as visitors gather in front of his steel-barred cage, King often sits in the ...

Adult alpha male gorilla yawns irritably, showing dangerous fangs and teeth. Dominant male gorilla yawns with his mouth open.© Okyela/Shutterstock.com If you love to go on adventures and travel around ...

Melanie Lustig walked out of her job at Monkey Jungle in mid-September. The last straw, she says, was scooping up piles of rotten fruit and feces inside an enclosure where the park’s orangutan, Mei, ...

Officially, monkeys, apes and protected species shouldn’t be sold in the Republic of Congo. Since years of civil war finally ended in 2003, the government has been trying to work with conservation ...