Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Rhesus monkey at a research facility in Bastrop, Texas in 2011. (Houston Chronicle via Getty Images file) A police search is underway after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South ...
PETA spokespersons stated that the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in Texas has contacted Alpha Genesis, offering to work with it to provide the animals with a "suitable home," and PETA says it ...
As of May, the Yemassee facility held 6,701 primates. A similar escape happened in 2016, when 19 monkeys reportedly got out for about six hours before they were returned to the facility.. On ...
Alpha Genesis is a company in Yemassee, South Carolina that breeds cynomolgous, rhesus and capuchin monkeys and sells the animals 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 Post and Courier newspaper reported last year 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."
The center houses over 2,500 non-human primates. Among the primates held in captivity at the SNPRC are baboons, chimpanzees, common marmosets, and rhesus macaques.The center houses over 1,000 baboons, which makes it the world's largest colony of baboons used for biomedical research. [4]
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.
Some of the monkeys are also included in the television series TaleSpin, as employees of Louie's Island-Bar. The Bandar-log reappear in The Jungle Book 2, this time without their leader Louie who was mentioned to have left the jungle. They are just seen dancing with Baloo, Mowgli, and other animals during the song "W-I-L-D".