BEAUFORT — Alpha Genesis Inc., a company that breeds thousands of monkeys in Yemassee for research, recently landed a new federal contract to run another large monkey colony on Morgan Island in the ...

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week. Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort. In ...

YEMASSEE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Moldy food, traumatic injuries and cage escapes – these are just some of the concerns outlined in documents from a whistleblower about conditions at a South Carolina ...

Editor's Note: One monkey has been captured, while 42 are still on the loose. Read the latest here. Forty-three monkeys who were on the loose in South Carolina were located, but officials were working ...

YEMASSEE, S.C. (WSAV) — Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center did not mince words in a blunt response to a statement released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) criticizing the ...

YEMASSEE — Greg Westergaard has built his career around monkeys, tracking their most-intimate behaviors and selling them to laboratories to serve as test subjects for cutting-edge drug development and ...

YEMASSEE, S.C. (WTOC) - The CEO of Alpha Genesis, the testing facility where 43 monkeys escaped from last week, has given an update on the employee who may have left doors open, allowing for the ...

One of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed, officials said Saturday. Many of the others are still located a few yards from the ...

YEMASSEE, S.C. — On Thursday, the CEO of a company that recently announced the recovery of several wayward monkeys in the South Carolina Lowcountry expressed appreciation to the community and sent a ...

Most of the time, troops of macaque monkeys live together in harmony. However, in macaque societies, dominance and troop rank determine everything from access to food to mating rights. So, it’s ...