Lab monkeys initially thought to be carrying a range of diseases have escaped from a truck in Mississippi following a crash — prompting law enforcement officers to kill a number of the animals.

NI 62, a monkey bound for a medical lab when he escaped a truck crash in Mississippi, is now known as Forrest and living at Popcorn Park in Lacey.

Forty-three monkeys bred for research escaped from their South Carolina compound Wednesday, but they haven’t gone far. The animals, all young female rhesus macaques, made a break for it after an ...

A third and final lab monkey has been found after being on the loose for over a week due to a truck carrying the animals overturning on a Mississippi highway. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, ...

YEMASSEE, S.C. — All missing monkeys are reported to be safe months after escaping a medical research lab in the Low Country. Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard confirmed on Friday all 43 monkeys have ...

Employees at a South Carolina compound that breeds monkeys for medical research have recaptured five more animals that escaped last week from an enclosure that wasn’t fully locked. As of Monday ...

More than a month after 43 monkeys escaped from a medical lab in South Carolina, the last four to evade capture were sticking close together. The dozens of young, female Rhesus macaques bred for ...

The second of three lab monkeys that escaped a crash on Interstate 59 in Mississippi last week was shot and killed Monday evening, Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson confirmed Tuesday afternoon. One ...

AMHERST — Researchers at a now-closed University of Massachusetts Amherst monkey laboratory that’s long been a target of animal rights activists euthanized 13 remaining marmosets in May. PETA, the ...