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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 ...
The 43 primates broke loose from an Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County, prompting officials to set up traps and use thermal imaging cameras in an effort to locate and capture the monkeys ...
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 ...
In 2014, 26 animals escaped from an Alpha Genesis enclosure (but did not leave the facility), prompting a fine of over $12,000 from the Department of Agriculture. [4] In 2015, an inspection report wrote that one cynomologus macaque monkey's cage had been closed with a clip instead of a lock. [3]
Two more animals are on the loose in South Carolina as the state continues its search for fugitive monkeys that escaped a medical research facility in Beaufort County. But this time, it's two emus ...
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 ...
Most were lured back with food and were given peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and "monkey biscuits" — a high-protein Purina Monkey Chow specially formulated for the rhesus macaques. The facility breeds the monkeys to sell to medical facilities and other researchers. Humans have been using the monkeys for scientific research since the late ...
On Wednesday, 43 monkeys being held at the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina broke loose from their enclosure after a caretaker accidentally failed to secure the gate, Westergaard told ...