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 ...

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 ...

How many monkeys are loose in Mississippi? What are rhesus monkeys and where are they from? Can rhesus monkeys survive in Mississippi? What should I do if I see a monkey in Mississippi? A truck ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

A truck hauling lab monkeys from Tulane University crashed in eastern Mississippi on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and several of the animals fled the vehicle. All but one of the escaped monkeys were “destroyed," ...