Authorities in Yemassee, South Carolina, are urging residents to stay indoors after 43 young female rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis research facility. According to Greg Westergaard,

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

A police search is underway after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night. Police in Yemassee, Beaufort County, said the Rhesus macaque primates escaped from Alpha Genesis, a business that provides "nonhuman primate products and bio-research services," according to its website.