Three monkeys remained on the loose in rural Mississippi on Wednesday after a truck carrying research animals overturned, leaving authorities scrambling to track them down and raising questions about ...

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) – A truck hauling 21 monkeys to a testing facility in Florida overturned in Mississippi on Tuesday. According to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office, the accident occurred ...

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 ...

Is the habitat and climate in Mississippi suitable for rhesus monkeys to survive? Does Mississippi have food that monkeys eat in the wild? According to the latest information from the Jasper County ...

A truck transporting Rhesus monkeys from the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center crashed Tuesday afternoon on I-59 in Jasper County in Mississippi. After the accident, a number of monkeys ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --A truck carrying lab monkeys crashed on a stretch of highway in rural Mississippi on Tuesday, with authorities still hunting for three of the escaped simians. The incident began when a ...