The rhesus macaque monkeys, all females, made a break for it after police say an employee did not fully lock their enclosure at Alpha Genesis, a facility that breeds them for medical research.

The monthslong search for 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility an hour west of Charleston came to a close Friday after the last of the fugitive primates ...

adding that the macaques had also damaged information boards. The agency has urged tourists to leave the monkeys alone while visiting the ruins, and said it is looking for "an appropriate solution ...

The monkeys escaped the research facility on Nov. 6, 2024, after one of the facility’s co-workers did not securely latch the enclosure door, according to The New York Times. Thirty-nine of the escaped ...

Putting the sexual advances aside for a moment, sika deer and macaques already have an interesting interspecies relationship. The deer follow the monkeys around, eating food they drop out of the ...

In another video clip, a person plays with the genitals of a juvenile male macaque sitting on a limestone block from an ancient temple to get it excited for the camera. The abuse of monkeys at the ...

A truly wonderful sight," he said. The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaque primates, which have brown fur with red faces and ears. They have close-cropped hair on their heads, which ...