Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November.

In early November, the monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Facility after a caretaker didn’t secure the doors, police said.

The company confirmed that 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's facilities. The Yemassee Police Department said in November that traps with bait were set up ...

The team successfully applied their new tool to a free-ranging population of rhesus macaques. The results show that even for low-quality sequencing data, this method can accurately determine ...

More information: Annika Freudiger et al, Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025 ...

The monthslong search for 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility an hour west of Charleston came to a close Friday after the last of the fugitive primates ...

The team successfully applied their new tool to a free-ranging population of rhesus macaques. The results show that even for low-quality sequencing data, this method can accurately determine ...