As federal government agency NIH cuts demands for research primates, some hope to turn SC’s Monkey Island into coastal retirement home for monkeys and chimps.

Monkey see, monkey do, but sometimes monkeys tumble out of a crashed semi-truck and come running at you. Something like that happened a few days ago in the humid expanses of Mississippi. Indeed, a truck hauling a load of scientific lab-testing monkeys crashed and sent said monkeys out into the free world.

Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not necessarily the case.

An unlikely coalition of animal rights groups and politicians are demanding an end to federal funding for research using animals as test subjects.

A truck transporting monkeys associated with Tulane University crashed, prompting law enforcement to take "appropriate action" based on what it was initially told, sheriff's officials said.

Oct. 8 (UPI) --A South Carolina town clerk teamed up with the local mayor -- and a hot cup of coffee -- to capture a spider monkey spotted running loose through town. Casey Hill, town clerk in Eutawville, Orangeburg County, said she was helping out at the ...