Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center CEO Greg Westergaard said the company determined the enclosure that 43 rhesus macaques escaped from was new and in perfect working order. Westergaard said immediately after the incident occurred, the employee involved ...

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.

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.

SOUTH CAROLINA, USA — Two more monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina medical research lab last week have been found and safely recovered, bringing the total returned to the facility to 32, according to the Yemassee Police Department and Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard.

Two more monkeys that escaped a South Carolina research facility last week have been trapped and returned, the facility's CEO said.

Officials are still struggling to recapture monkeys that escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, last week. According to the Associated Press, as of Monday afternoon, 13 out of the 43 young female Rhesus macaques remain on the loose in the forested area surrounding the facility run by Alpha Genesis,

More than half of the43 monkeys that recently escaped from a biomedical research lab in South Carolina have been safely captured, officials said. As of Sunday night, 25 of the primates are back home at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center lab,