South Carolina
Five additional monkeys from S.C. research lab recovered; 13 remain at large
An additional five rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility last week have been recovered, meaning about a dozen of the rhesus macaque primates remain at large.
A Rhesus Macaque monkey watches the traffic on the road to Tai Wai, Hong Kong, on January 15, 2004. Forty-three such primates have escaped from a South Carolina research facility. As of Monday night, 30 have been recaptured. Photo by Paul Hilton/EPA
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