Animal rights nonprofit PETA on Thursday is demanding proof the 43 primates that escaped from a research facility in Yemassee last year, were indeed recovered b

It’s been more than 2 months since 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. On Friday it was announced that the final 4 missing primates were recaptured.

The female rhesus macaques staged an escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina last year.

The last of 43 escaped monkeys has returned to the Alpha Genesis research lab in Yemassee, S.C., nearly three months after an attendant accidentally left two doors unsecured.

Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November.

In early November, the monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Facility after a caretaker didn’t secure the doors, police said.

More than three dozen monkeys escaped from the primate research facility last November after a keeper left their pen open. The Yemassee Police Department confirmed in a social med

All 43 research monkeys that escaped a South Carolina facility in November have been safely recaptured, the Yemassee Police Department said in an update Friday.