Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."

Reports of two large emus running riot in the city of Loris, in Horry County, SC, followed an incident last week when 43 monkeys escaped an Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County, SC, the Yemassee Police Department said.

One week after 43 monkeys escaped a South Carolina research facility, reports surfaced that two “feral” emus had also gone rogue. The Horry County Police Department first wrote about the large birds on Wednesday,