Traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used in an effort to locate the fugitive monkeys, police said.

Police have now recovered 30 monkeys after a group of 43 primates escaped from a medical research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, on Nov. 6. Forty-three Rhesus macaque monkeys broke out of ...

The escape, which occurred on November 6, saw 43 monkeys flee their enclosure after it was left improperly secured by an employee, according to the Yemassee Police Department. To date, 37 monkeys have ...

Alpha Genesis hasn’t provided an update on the remaining missing monkeys since then. As of Dec. 3, it wasn’t clear whether ...

Rhesus macaques are used for medical research because they are so like us. Perhaps that’s a compelling reason to leave them ...

The escape of 43 monkeys being raised for research from the Alpha Genesis lab wasn’t the first time that primates have gotten ...

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has filed a new complaint with USDA alleging monkeys have ...

In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of ...

Joanna Makowska of the Animal Welfare Institute says US Agriculture Department must conduct thorough investigation of Alpha ...

When 43 monkeys escaped from a South Carolina research facility on Nov. 6, countless human cousins around the country cheered ...

Whistleblowers allege multiple monkey deaths over the weekend as heaters reportedly malfunction at Alpha Genesis Primate ...