Yemassee police say the monkeys were spotted during a search and workers from the research facility are now trying to 'entice them with food'.
A total of 43 rhesus macaques have escaped from a research facility in a small town in South Carolina .
In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the Yemassee police department said the rhesus macaques escaped from their enclosure after a caretaker failed to secure the doors. Alpha Genesis confirmed with police that the monkeys were all young females, had never been used for testing, and were too young to carry disease.Police in the town of about 2,000 were helping employees of the research centre, Alpha Genesis, search for the escapees."The primates are described as very young females weighing approximately 6-7lbs ," the Yemassee police said in a statement.
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