Officials say the rhesus macaques made a break for it Wednesday after an employee at the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee didn't fully lock a door as she fed and checked on them.

Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina and they are running loose as authorities try to bait them back to the compound. Here is what we know.

Forty-three rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee Wednesday but the nearby police chief said there is almost no danger to the public.The post Monkeying around: 43 primates break out of Yemassee lab appeared first on

More than 40 monkeys were on the loose Thursday in a small US town after escaping a research facility, with authorities warning residents to keep their doors and windows closed.The rhesus macaques -- described as "skittish" by police in Yemassee, S...

Police are searching for a total of 43 monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night. Beaufort County Sheriffs Office said on social media that the animals escaped from Alpha Genesis, a company that breeds thousands of monkeys in Yemassee for research. Police said traps have been set up around […]

More than 40 monkeys are now roaming the streets of Yemassee, S.C., after staging an escape from a research facility.

Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.

Police in South Carolina are warning residents to lock their doors and windows after 43 monkeys escaped from an Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County. Traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used to locate the fugitive monkeys, the Yemassee Police Department said in a statement.

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.They are not infected with any disease whatsoever. They are harmless and a little skittish, Yemassee Police Chief Gregory Alexander said Thursday morning.The Rhesus macaque primates escaped from the

More than 40 monkeys escaped from a bio-medical research lab in Beaufort County, South Carolina, on Wednesday afternoon after a caretaker accidentally failed to secure a door at an enclosure, allowing the primates to escape. In a public service announcement on Thursday from the Yemassee Police Department, it said the police received an alert from ...

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.