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<p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">More than 40 monkeys were on the loose Thursday in a small US town after escaping a research facility, with authorities warning residents to keep their doors and windows closed.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The rhesus macaques -- described as &quot;skittish&quot; by police in Yemassee, South Carolina -- were reported to have fled their enclosures a day earlier at a facility run by Alpha Genesis, which specializes in primate-based biomedical research.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Search teams were deployed to help locate the monkeys and were &quot;working to entice them with food,&quot; the local police department said on social media.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">&quot;Residents are urged to keep their doors and windows securely closed and to report any sighting immediately by dialing 911. Please do not attempt to approach these animals under any circumstances,&quot; it said.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The police force added that all the 43 primates were young females weighing up to seven pounds (three kilograms), and that they had not been used for testing.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">&quot;A spokesman from Alpha Genesis can confirm that these animals are too young to carry disease,&quot; it said.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Greg Westergaard, CEO of Alpha Genesis, said the escape was &quot;frustrating,&quot; telling CBS News he is &quot;hoping for a happy ending&quot; with the primates returning of their own volition.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">He said that the primates were able to roam free after a caretaker failed to secure a door at an enclosure.</p><p style="-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">&quot;It&#x27;s really like follow-the-leader. 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<p>More than 40 monkeys were on the loose Thursday in a small US town after escaping a research facility, with authorities warning residents to keep their doors and windows closed.</p>

More than 40 monkeys were on the loose Thursday in a small US town after escaping a research facility, with authorities warning residents to keep their doors and windows closed.

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US town on alert after 43 monkeys escape research facility

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Published Nov 08, 2024 10:04 AM PHT

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