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Alpha Genesis is a company in Yemassee, South Carolina that breeds cynomolgous, rhesus and capuchin monkeys for use in research. Led by CEO Greg Westergaard [1] the company is one of the largest of its kind in the world. [2] It is a Class B dealer according to the United States Department of Agriculture. [3]
The final holdouts of a group of monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina over two months ago have been recaptured safely, the Yemassee Police Department announced on Friday ...
The news of the fugitive emus comes days after the escape of another batch of animals — 43 monkeys. They deserted the site after a caretaker failed to secure their enclosure gate.
A view of the cages in the research facility where forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from in Yemassee, South Carolina, United States on November 8, 2024.
The Post and Courier newspaper reported in 2023 that Alpha Genesis won a federal contract to oversee a colony of 3,500 rhesus monkeys on South Carolina's Morgan Island, known as "Monkey Island."
Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility.
Originally, the monkey colony now located on Morgan Island was located at the Caribbean Primate Research Center in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. [5] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were incidents of the free-ranging monkeys escaping, carrying viral herpes B infections, which lead to outbreaks in the local ...
In March of 2023, Alpha Genesis also took over the management of South Carolina's Morgan Island, also known as "Monkey Island," home to about 3,500 rhesus monkeys, The Post and Courier reported.