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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.
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.
Alpha Genesis didn't respond to USA TODAY’s email and phone requests on Saturday. In South Carolina, 43 rhesus macaques escaped from a research facility an hour west of Charleston in 2024.
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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 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.
Two more monkeys that escaped last week from a South Carolina research facility were recaptured Tuesday, according to the facility's CEO, bringing the total number of primates caught and returned ...