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1 monkey recovered safely, 42 others remain on the run from South Carolina lab
Headline from ABC 10 Sacramento, on the newest of 2 developments
The monkeys made a break for it Wednesday after an employee at the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee didn't fully lock a door as she checked on them, officials say.
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Escaped monkeys update: They're ‘having an adventure’
Headline from Fox10 Phoenix ·
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1 monkey recovered safely, 42 others remain on the run from South Carolina lab
By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose after escaping from the Alpha Genesis Primate…
Police said the monkeys aren't infected with any diseases and are harmless, but that people in the area should close their windows and doors and call 911 if they see one.
A group of 40 monkeys got loose from the Alpha Genesis non-human primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, Wednesday, and local police are still trying to track them down.
Associated Press Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is "almost
43 rhesus macaque primates escaped the confines of their enclosure Wednesday afternoon at a Alpha Genesis research facility located in Yemassee, South Carolina.
(CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose after escaping from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Ye…
Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is “almost no danger” to the public.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Forty-three monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods near the site and workers are using food to try to recapture them, authorities said Friday.
