As 43 escaped scientific research monkeys remain at large in the Yemassee area, locals are having fun with the attention and national news coverage, making jokes, Internet memes and even merchandise ...

The CEO of a Lowcountry primate research facility has blunt words for one of the animal rights organizations calling for the facility to be shut down.

A police search is underway after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night. Police in Yemassee, Beaufort County, said the Rhesus macaque primates escaped from ...

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. The monkeys escaped from the Alpha ...

Late last year, as residents of a small Lowcountry town rounded up monkeys on the loose from a local breeding farm, work crews began preparing hundreds of other primates for grueling journeys across ...