{"id":339463,"date":"2025-10-28T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339463\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:44:09","slug":"aggressive-monkeys-escape-from-overturned-truck-on-mississippi-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339463\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Aggressive&#8217; monkeys escape from overturned truck on Mississippi highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HEIDELBERG, Miss. &#8212; Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity Tuesday after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the Jasper County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a post on Facebook, warning that the monkeys were \u201caggressive.&#8221; It is not clear how many monkeys were originally in the truck or how many were killed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The truck was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rhesus-macaque-monkeys-south-carolina-lab-escape-81dd4bb3acf2a445c0f899e31a8e05eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carrying Rehsus monkeys<\/a>, which typically weigh around 16 pounds (7.7 kilograms) and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet. They were being housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations, according to the university. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It is not clear who was transporting the monkeys or where they were going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shows monkeys crawling through the tall grass on the side of Interstate 59 just north of Heidelberg, Mississippi, with wooden crates labeled \u201clive animals\u201d crumpled and strewn about. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sheriff&#8217;s department initially said the monkeys were carrying diseases including herpes, but Tulane University said in a statement that the monkeys \u201care not infectious.&#8221; Law enforcement officials did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tulane University said it is working with local law enforcement. Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries is also on site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The crash happened approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the state capital of Jackson. It is not clear what caused the truck to overturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEIDELBERG, Miss. &#8212; Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity Tuesday after the truck carrying them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167432,3425,347,57,31650,159,61,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-339463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-167432","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-monkeys","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-u-s-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115454454147288256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}