also has prompted local businesses to rally and raise money for the monkeys in unique ways including sales from a new beer and T-shirts and entry frees from a “freedom run.” Following the Nov. 6 ...

YEMASSEE — The great monkey roundup continues. A week after 43 juvenile female rhesus macaque monkeys escaped their breeding ...

Well, sort of. If you've been keeping up with the 43 primates that recently escaped a scientific search facility in Yemassee, ...

Rhesus macaques are Asian, Old World monkeys primarily found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Southeast Asia and China. According to the New England Primate Conservancy, Rhesus macaques were imported ...