Dozens of monkeys are on the loose in Yemassee, SC. This isn’t the first time primates escaped from the facility.

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina, the Yemassee Police Department said.

More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in SC have been recovered unharmed.

In Yemassee, officials have announced that 25 of the monkeys that escaped from a research and breeding facility have been returned. Eighteen still on the loose.

Of the 43 monkeys that broke loose from Alpha Genesis in South Carolina, officials managed to recover 25 of them between Saturday and Sunday.

After 43 monkeys escaped from a South Carolina research facility this week, one has been recovered, the Yemassee Police Department announced Saturday. The animal was unharmed. The animals escaped an enclosure on Thursday when an employee doing routine cleaning and feeding failed to secure two doors behind her.

A “sizeable group” remains active along the compound's fence line and bedded down in the trees, police in Yemassee, about 50 miles northeast of Savannah, Georgia, said in a statement.

Authorities announced Monday that five additional monkeys had been recovered after nearly four dozen escaped from a South Carolina research facility. Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard told Yemassee police that 30 of the 43 escaped rhesus macaques have returned to the Yemassee facility.

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A research facility in Yemassee, S.C., has recovered 25 of the 43 monkeys that escaped from the laboratory last week after a caretaker accidentally left the door to their enclosure unsecured.

A nonprofit wildlife sanctuary based out of Texas is urging Alpha Genesis to rehome the 43 primates who escaped a Beaufort County research facility last week. Born Free USA says it operates one of the largest primate sanctuaries in the country.