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Last Wednesday, 43 young female Rhesus monkeys bred for scientific and medical research escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, prompting international media coverage ...
Alpha Genesis breeds the primates to sell to medical facilities and research labs all around the world. In 2022, 11 monkeys escaped from the same center through a broken chain link fence ...
However, this is not the first time that the monkeys escaped the facility. In 2016, 19 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis and were captured almost six hours after their jailbreak, according to The ...
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 ...
A wild and unexpected scene unfolded in Beaufort County, South Carolina, as over 40 rhesus macaque monkeys made a dash for freedom from a research facility. Residents have been urged to keep their ...
YEMASSEE, S.C. (WSAV) – Two more monkeys that escaped from a Lowcountry research facility have been trapped, officials said Monday. A total of 43 rhesus macaques escaped the Alpha Genesis ...
Humans have been using the rhesus macaque for scientific research since the late 1800s when the theory of evolution gained more acceptance, according to a 2022 research paper by the journal eLife. The first study on the species was published in 1893 and described the “anatomy of advanced pregnancy," according to the eLife paper.
Westergaard said there are several thousand monkeys at the research center. This is not the first time primates escaped from the research center. WSAV reported about a group that escaped in May 2016 .