40 Experimental Monkeys Escape Research Facility in SC

from the article, sounds like they have eyes on them

The monkeys were a group of "very young females" that have never been used for testing. An Alpha Genesis spokesperson confirmed to police that the animals "are too young to carry disease," according to police statement.

"Alpha Genesis currently have eyes on the primates and are working to entice them with food," police said Thursday afternoon.

Traps have also been set up and officers are using thermal imaging cameras in an attempt to recapture the animals, police said.

 

look in the nearest wal mart

 

I guess it is a good thing it is hunting season. I wonder what a taxidermist charges for a young monkey.

 

I wonder if the Chinese own the testing facility. They wanted to get one started in Levy county a couple of years ago. Here is part of a article from WUFT. I mean what could go wrong?
"There apparently will not be any monkey business in Levy County.

Plans for a primate research lab in this rural north central Florida county have been shelved. And many residents, still harboring anxieties about the idea, say good riddance.

“It’s bad enough that it’s gonna be a monkey lab, and it’s even worse because it’s a monkey lab from China,” said Clevy Watkins, who has lived off County Road 326 for 69 years and was concerned about his new neighbor earlier this year.

“It could be another Wuhan,” said Watkins, who lives just a six-minute drive from the site.

This and other somewhat xenophobic alarms sounded last August when the Chinese-owned JOINN Biologics bought 1,474 acres of land near Williston for $5.5 million. Prior to the purchase, the Richmond, California-based biomedical company made informal inquiries to the county commission about building a primate quarantine and research facility on the land, according to a detailed statement issued by the Levy County Commission."

 

Pretty sure this is how Planet of the Apes started??? Lots of forest in SC.

 

COVFEFE

 

In SC :

In FL they are a tourist attraction

These Wild Florida Monkeys Attract Visitors - And Controversy

 

It has been a movie plot before actually.

Project X (1987) ⭐ 6.2 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

 

Not the first time. In 1989 monkeys being used in Ebola experiments escaped from a facility in Reston, VA. Unlike the escape in South Carolina the one in Virginia had the potential to be truly disastrous considering that Ebola has a very high mortality rate (considerably higher than even the earlier strains of Covid) and is very transmissible.
25 years ago in Virginia, a very different Ebola outbreak
How a Virginia suburb became an Ebola epicenter

 

Gotta add The Stand to the list of movies. Captain Tripps.

 

Relax, people... none of them are named Cesar.

 

Don’t be so sure. They are not talking English among themselves until all the humans are far enough away, so we don’t know what they call each other yet.

 

I can remember when there was a single macaque loose in E. G’ville. It caused quite a stir in the neighborhood. For some readon the SO asked me to try and dart it. Always up for fun, i drove out there with all my gear and sure enough there it was.

However that was about as fast a critter running through the trees as anything i had seen running on the ground. Raised my dart rifle to look at it through the scope and it took off through the oak canopy and before i could lower my rifle there were people screaming 4 houses down on the other side of the block. They fast. I packed up and left. It was later caught in a passive trap baited with fruit.

 

Those have been

I remember one showing up in our neighborhood in NW Gainesville around 1970. Not sure what happened to him. Probably someone's pet. There were a lot of trees and woods back then just West of 34th street. No way he would be caught without a trap or if he was tame enough he just went back home. The ones from Silver Springs have shown up miles from there over the years but most seem to stay close to the river.