Alpha Genesis is a company in Yemassee, South Carolina that breeds cynomolgous, rhesus and capuchin monkeys and sells the animals for use in research. Led by CEO Greg Westergaard [1] the company is one of the largest of its kind in the world. [2] It is a Class B dealer according to the United States Department of Agriculture. [3]

Nov 19, 2024 · 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.

Nov 7, 2024 · What is Alpha Genesis, the Beaufort County research center where 40 monkeys escaped? The company says it has more than 100 acres of quarantine, breeding, holding and research space.

Nov 7, 2024 · 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...

Jan 29, 2025 · From early November to January 27, local and state officials worked with Alpha Genesis to recover the runaway scientific research monkeys. The effort was almost comical at times for the public following the story, a story clouded with …

Nov 9, 2024 · Alpha Genesis, federal health officials and police all said the monkeys pose no risk to public health. The facility breeds the monkeys to sell to medical and other researchers.

5 days ago · The Alpha Genesis deaths occurred on the night of 22 November 2024 when a heater apparently malfunctioned and poisoned the caged monkeys with CO. The incident came 2 weeks after 43 monkeys escaped from the same South Carolina facility. That escape was the most recent among several since 2014 involving dozens of monkeys at the facility.

Nov 7, 2024 · Forty-three monkeys who were on the loose in South Carolina were located, but officials were working to recapture them Thursday afternoon. They escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research...

Nov 8, 2024 · Alpha Genesis has approximately 5,000 monkeys across two sites from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Species include marmosets, cynomolgus and rhesus macaques, African Greens, and...

Jan 31, 2025 · The monkeys had escaped from the locally dubbed "Yemassee monkey farm" on Castle Hall Road, in Beaufort County, near the Hampton County line. On Wednesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued a statement to the USA Today Network - South Carolina's The Hampton County Guardian newspaper demanding that Alpha Genesis offer proof that these escaped monkeys were recaptured alive.