South Carolina Lab Recaptures 5 More Escaped Monkeys but 13 Are Still Loose

South Carolina Lab Recaptures 5 More Escaped Monkeys but 13 Are Still Loose
Rhesus Macaques in a file photo. Sabastein/AFP via Getty Images
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YEMASSEE, S.C.—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 afternoon, 30 of the 43 monkeys that made it outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee are back in the company’s custody unharmed, police said in a statement.