YEMASSEE, S.C. — Two more monkeys that escaped last week from a South Carolina research facility were recaptured Tuesday, according to the facility's CEO, bringing the total number of primates caught and returned to 32 since the incident. Eleven monkeys are still on the loose.

Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center CEO Greg Westergaard said the company determined the enclosure that 43 rhesus macaques escaped from was new and in perfect working order. Westergaard said immediately after the incident occurred, the employee involved ...

Two more monkeys that escaped a South Carolina research facility last week have been trapped and returned, the facility's CEO said.

Officials are still struggling to recapture monkeys that escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, last week. According to the Associated Press, as of Monday afternoon, 13 out of the 43 young female Rhesus macaques remain on the loose in the forested area surrounding the facility run by Alpha Genesis,

More than half of the43 monkeys that recently escaped from a biomedical research lab in South Carolina have been safely captured, officials said. As of Sunday night, 25 of the primates are back home at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center lab,