Residents told to shut doors and windows after 40 monkeys escape from South Carolina research facility - Alpha Genesis, the compny that operates the lab that lost the monkeys, provides ‘nonhuman prima

In Yemassee, SC, a town with more monkeys than people, residents were not overly surprised that the Alphas Genesis facility’s monkeys were once again roaming freely.

Police are searching for more than 40 monkeys that escaped from a medical research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, on Nov. 6. Forty-three Rhesus macaque monkeys broke out out of the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center on Wednesday afternoon, according to a Yemassee Police Department statement.

YEMASSEE, S.C. ( WSAV) – Police in South Carolina were asking for the public’s help in locating 40 primates that escaped from a research facility on Wednesday. The animals escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, according to the Yemassee Police Department.

However, this is not the first time that the monkeys escaped the facility. In 2016, 19 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis and were captured almost six hours after their jailbreak, according to The Post and Courier, while 26 monkeys escaped in December 2014.

At least 43 primates were on the loose Thursday morning in a South Carolina town after escaping from a research center.

Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility.

Police in a small South Carolina town are warning residents to keep their doors and windows locked after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility.

A police chief in South Carolina says there is no “almost no danger” to the public after 43 monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research