Editor's Note: One monkey has been captured, while 42 are still on the loose. Read the latest here. Forty-three monkeys who were on the loose in South Carolina were located, but officials were ...

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week. Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort.

With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the Low Country facility has come under intense scrutiny.

Police in Yemassee, in Beaufort County, said the Rhesus macaque primates escaped from Alpha Genesis, a business that provides "nonhuman primate products and bio-research services," according to ...

Alpha Genesis has a "long history of monkey escapes," including six separate, documented incidents of animals opening or escaping their enclosures between January and August of 2022.

On Wednesday evening, news broke that 43 "smaller breed" monkeys had escaped from an Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center's facility in Yemassee at Castle Hall Road in Beaufort County (not far ...

NOW ON THE ESCAPED MONKEYS IN THE LOW COUNTRY. AT LAST CHECK. 35 OF THE 43 ANIMALS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT AND RETURNED TO THE ALPHA GENESIS RESEARCH FACILITY IN BEAUFORT COUNTY. DANIELLE COBB HAS THE ...

Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard took to social media to issue a response to the advocacy group, seen below. Alpha Genesis, Facebook PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo responded to ...

The search continues for 40-plus primates that escaped Wednesday from Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina.What is Alpha Genesis? According to the company's website, Alpha Genesis ...

Alpha Genesis security guards managed to coax most of the primates back with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Anadolu via Getty Images. You are viewing 1 of 3 images Previous Image Next Image.

Alpha Genesis told town officials the monkeys are not dangerous and are disease-free, but the public is still warned to stay away from them, according to Garnes.

Alpha Genesis was established in 1964 to provide animals for polio vaccine research, per the Guardian. Animals raised in Yemassee are sold only to USDA-licensed research facilities, Alpha Genesis ...