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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.
Of the 43 monkeys that broke loose from Alpha Genesis in South Carolina, officials managed to recover 25 of them between Saturday and Sunday.
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
It also oversees a colony of more than 3,000 monkeys on Morgan Island, known as Monkey Island, off the South Carolina coast. Original article source: More than half of escaped research monkeys ...
The company usually handles escapes on site, but the monkeys got outside the compound about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from downtown Yemassee, Alexander said. “The handlers know them well and usually can get them back with fruit or a little treat,” Alexander told The Associated Press by phone. But rounding up these escapees is taking some more ...
The escaped primates do not pose a threat to public health, the laboratory said
More than a month after 43 monkeys escaped from a medical lab in South Carolina, the last four to evade capture were sticking close together.. The dozens of young, female Rhesus macaques bred for ...
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