The fugitive monkeys had not been captured as of Friday morning. The primates broke loose from Alpha Genesis in Yemassee, Beaufort County in South Carolina. The company confirmed 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's ...

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.