Lab monkeys initially thought to be carrying a range of diseases have escaped from a truck in Mississippi following a crash — prompting law enforcement officers to kill a number of the animals.

A group of research lab monkeys escaped captivity in Mississippi as the truck carrying them overturned on Tuesday. The monkeys were on their way to a Tulane University research center in New Orleans ...

A third and final lab monkey has been found after being on the loose for over a week due to a truck carrying the animals overturning on a Mississippi highway. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, ...

On the morning of October 28, 2025, a truck transporting rhesus macaques overturned on Interstate 59 in Jasper County, Mississippi. The accident caused a public scare, a rapid law enforcement response ...

The final lab monkey that escaped in a crash on Interstate 59 in Mississippi last week has been captured near a home in Heidelberg, a town about two hours north of Biloxi, Jasper County authorities ...

JASPER COUNTY, Miss — A weeklong search for escaped lab monkeys in Mississippi ended Wednesday when authorities captured the last rhesus macaque that fled after a truck crash. Right now on WWL+, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A similar monkey escape incident occurred last November in South Carolina. A rhesus macaque who spent a week on the lam in ...

A rhesus macaque monkey named Forrest is now living at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Lacey. Forrest was one of eight lab monkeys that escaped after a truck crash in Mississippi. Of the three monkeys ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A third and final lab monkey has been found after being on the loose for over a week due to a truck carrying the animals ...