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The final holdouts of a group of monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina over two months ago have been safely recaptured, the Yemassee Police Department announced on Friday.
All 43 monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina in November, prompting warnings for nearby residents to secure their doors and windows, have been captured safely, officials ...
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD)—Authorities announced Monday that five additional monkeys had been recovered after nearly four dozen escaped from a South Carolina research facility. Alpha Genesis ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed, officials said Saturday. Many of the others are still located a few yards from the property, jumping back and forth over the facility’s fence, police said in a statement.
Most were lured back with food and were given peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and "monkey biscuits" — a high-protein Purina Monkey Chow specially formulated for the rhesus macaques. The facility breeds the monkeys to sell to medical facilities and other researchers. Humans have been using the monkeys for scientific research since the late ...
YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) — Four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research, authorities said. Two more rhesus macaques were trapped Monday outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, bringing the total of recovered monkeys to 39, chief executive Greg ...
Greg Westergaard, the company’s CEO, told NBC affiliate WSAV-TV in South Carolina on Nov. 7 that an employee of the research center left a door open while cleaning the monkeys’ enclosure ...
The monkeys pose no risk to public health, Alpha Genesis, federal health officials and police have all said. The facility breeds the monkeys to sell to medical facilities and other researchers. If people encounter the monkeys, they are advised to stay away from them — and to not fly drones in the area.