One of three monkeys that escaped after a truck hauling 21 of the animals from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi interstate has been found, according to authorities. The animal ...

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 ...

Monkeys being transported Tuesday on a Mississippi highway escaped after the truck carrying them overturned, and all but three that got out have since been killed, authorities said. The crash happened ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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.