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Alpha Genesis has approximately 5,000 monkeys across two sites from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Species include marmosets, cynomolgus and rhesus macaques, African Greens, and several ...
One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week.. Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort ...
A police search is underway after 40 monkeys escaped from an Alpha Genesis research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina on Wednesday night. Anyone who finds a monkey should not interact with it ...
According to documents provided by Alpha Genesis and the USDA government website, the Alpha Genesis Inc. site at 95 Castle ...
Alpha Genesis breeds the primates to sell to medical facilities and research labs all around the world. In 2022, 11 monkeys escaped from the same center through a broken chain link fence ...
Alpha Genesis breeds monkeys to sell for medical testing and research. A May federal inspection showed the facility houses 6,701 primates. In 2016, 19 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis.
Here is the latest on the monkeys that escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, on Nov. 6.(Video above: Animal rights group demands end of federal funding for Alpha Genesis ...
Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard told media outlets that the 43 primates escaped after a caretaker failed to secure the doors, according to a 5:50 p.m. update from the Yemassee Police Department.
The monkeys were bred for medical research and escaped unharmed from the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee. 4 25 monkeys have been recovered since the Alpha Genesis lab escape Wednesday.
Alpha Genesis research facility in Yemassee, SC is attempting to lure the monkeys in with food, but none have been safely captured. Tranquilizer dart guns may be the last option.
YEMASSEE, S.C. (WCIV) — A national wildlife charity is imploring Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center, where 43 monkeys escaped this week, to rehome the primates to their sanctuary once they ...
Alpha Genesis has approximately 5,000 monkeys across two sites from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Species include marmosets, cynomolgus and rhesus macaques, African Greens, and several ...