ST. LOUIS — Several monkeys are loose in St. Louis, the Animal Care and Control Division shared on Friday afternoon. Where the monkeys came from remains unknown, but the department said that exotic ...

Innocent monkeys on the loose in Mississippi were captured and killed Tuesday after cops were mistakenly told they were “aggressive” and had COVID and sexually transmitted diseases, sources said ...

How many monkeys are loose in Mississippi? What are rhesus monkeys and where are they from? Can rhesus monkeys survive in Mississippi? What should I do if I see a monkey in Mississippi? A truck ...

Eight rhesus monkeys escaped Tuesday when the truck transporting them and 15 fellows from Louisiana to Florida flipped in Mississippi, spilling them onto Interstate 59, authorities said. The Jasper ...

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. - Tulane University continued to distance itself from several escaped monkeys on Wednesday. A truck carrying 21 Rhesus Macaques crashed on I-59 in Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon ...

A number of monkeys were "destroyed" after they got loose Tuesday morning and Mississippi law enforcement officers were mistakenly told they were dangerous. The rhesus monkeys were being transported ...

Five other rhesus monkeys had been shot and killed after Mississippi officials were wrongly informed that the monkeys had Covid, hepatitis C and herpes. By Neil Vigdor Sheriff’s deputies shot and ...

Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not necessarily ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Monkeys that escaped from an overturned transport were thought to have COVID-19, hepatitis C and herpes. As of ...

Real life might have just created the perfect opening to a horror movie. Mississippi police reported Tuesday that a highway car wreck allowed a truckful of “aggressive” rhesus monkeys to escape.

Though a truck carrying monkeys from Tulane University did crash in Jasper County, Mississippi, the university said the escaped animals "aren't infectious." In October 2025, a claim (archived) ...

The search continues after a truck hauling monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi interstate Tuesday, freeing several large, "aggressive" monkeys. After the wreck, ...