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The Silver Spring monkeys were 17 wild-born macaque monkeys from the Philippines who were kept in the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. [2] From 1981 until 1991, they became what one writer called the most famous lab animals in history, as a result of a battle between animal researchers, animal advocates, politicians, and the courts over whether to use them in ...
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 ...
The Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center has faced allegations of mistreatment in the wake of 43 monkeys escaping from the facility. Final 4 Escaped Lab Monkeys Stick Together As They Avoid Traps ...
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 ...
Nearly three months after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, all of the monkeys have been captured, according to an update from the Yemassee ...
In 2018, federal officials fined Alpha Genesis $12,600 after dozens of primates escaped as well as for an incident that left a few others without water and other problems with how the monkeys were housed. Officials said 26 primates escaped from the Yemassee facility in 2014 and an additional 19 got out in 2016.
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 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 ...