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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 rhesus macaque monkeys, all females, made a break for it after police say an employee did not fully lock their enclosure at Alpha Genesis, a facility that breeds them for medical research ...

Monkeys have been used for scientific research since the late 1800s. It is believed that humans and rhesus macaques split from a common ancestry and share about 93% of the same DNA.

Authorities in South Carolina said Friday that the last four of the 43 escaped monkeys had been recaptured after two months of living in the woods, weathering a rare snowstorm and being tempted ...

Within two weeks of fleeing their enclosure on Nov. 6, 2024, after a caretaker had failed to latch a shelter’s doors, 39 of the monkeys, a species known as rhesus macaques, had been captured and ...