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In South Carolina, 43 rhesus macaques escaped from a research facility an hour west of Charleston in 2024. Police had urged residents to keep their doors and windows closed.
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]
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.
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."
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.
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.
A police search is underway after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night. Police in Yemassee, in Beaufort County, said the Rhesus macaque primates escaped ...
An escaped monkey recently recovered in South Carolina was not captured alive, a county official said Thursday, several days after an earlier statement said the “attempts to capture” the ...