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Six monkeys were still on the loose early Monday after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, according to authorities.

Two more Rhesus macaques were trapped Sunday outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, bringing the total of recovered monkeys to 37 of the 43 that escaped, Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard said in a statement relayed by Yemassee Police in a social media post.

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

last one left gets secretary of the interior.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd be setting up a monkey Anne Frank attic.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I was hoping for a (mostly) happy ending for the monkeys like in the movie Project X. Oh well.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here's hoping someone other than these negligent monkey torturers can find them and get them placed into a sanctuary.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They will either become an invasive species or euthanized.

We may be seeing the birth of the Kudzu monkeys of the Carolinas.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I'm sorry, but there are plenty of invasive primates there already, much worse than macaques at that.

So I hope yes.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm still rooting for Escobar's cocaine hippos. I know they're bad for the environment but so are we. Let the hippos be!

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

They will end up really damaging the Amazon river ecology in some horrible ways because of their poop.

They almost introduced hippos to America as a source of meat, but hippos are too angry, so they gave up on that idea.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I know they are very cute and it's not their fault that they exist there, but I think they should be euthanized.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Don't unroll your windows 'cause those monkeys seem confused and irritable.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

My thought process-

"There are invasive monkeys in Florida? Oh right, it's Florida. That also explains the herpes."

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 13 hours ago

These monkeys are used for medical research. We have no idea what infectious diseases they were intentionally given. Born and bred to suffer then be neutralized.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Get me a monkey and I'll show you

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

You can be my monkey bb ❣️

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well I am relieved.

Sounds like the local wildlife might have been dining on exotic fare.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I read the title and the body and I was like, what kind of journalist wouldn't list what kind of monkey it is in the title! Then I opened the article to read further... And immediately understood 99% of their audience wouldn't know wtf kind of monkey that was.