© Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(Yemassee, SC) — Animal control workers continue to try and round up dozens of monkeys that escaped a primate research center in South Carolina last Wednesday. They have captured 25 of the 43 rhesus macaques that escaped last Wednesday, after a worker left a gate or door open at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center. Many of the monkeys were caught after food was put out for them. They did not seem to go very far.
A homeowner near the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, says he was shocked to see a monkey in a tree outside his house. The local sheriff has been telling neighbors to keep their doors and windows shut so the monkeys don’t get in. The research center uses the primates to conduct clinical trials for various treatments. They say the monkeys they are looking for have never been used for testing.
