In Yemassee, SC, a town with more monkeys than people, residents were not overly surprised that the Alphas Genesis facility’s monkeys were once again roaming freely.

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina, the Yemassee Police Department said.

Officials in South Carolina are still searching for 43 escaped Rhesus Macaque primates. Could apples help? As if things in America needed to get any more dramatic this week, 43 wild monkeys are still on the loose after escaping from a research facility in South Carolina yesterday.

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet

Alpha Genesis did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for a comment on the incident. It is also not known if the monkeys were carrying any disease. However, this is not

After 43 monkeys escaped from a South Carolina research facility this week, one has been recovered, the Yemassee Police Department announced Saturday. The animal was unharmed. The animals escaped an enclosure on Thursday when an employee doing routine cleaning and feeding failed to secure two doors behind her.