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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. Anadolu via Getty Images
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.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina last week have now been recovered unharmed, officials said Sunday. Twenty-four monkeys were captured on Sunday, a day after another of the 43 escaped monkeys was recovered.
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.
Of the 43 monkeys that broke loose from Alpha Genesis in South Carolina, officials managed to recover 25 of them between Saturday and Sunday.
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.
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 total of 43 monkeys, like the ones pictured here, have been on the loose for more than 24 hours in South Carolina. Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center
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