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Media Coverage:
- Out in the cold: Fugitive monkeys are still on the lam as Lowcountry winter approaches - 9 Dec 2024
- Internal documents, inspection reports reveal history of escapes at SC monkey facility - 26 Nov 2024
- Escaped monkeys spark outcry over animal care at Alpha Genesis lab - 20 Nov 2024
- 39 down, 4 more to go: Nearly all escaped monkey recovered by research lab - 19 Nov 2024
- Several escaped monkeys still loose in the Lowcountry as animal advocates call for investigation - 19 Nov 2024
- Monkey deaths, prior problems at research center, whistleblower reports - 18 Nov 2024
- Animal welfare group files federal complaint against facility that lost 43 monkeys in SC - 8 Nov 2024
- EXTRA: 40 monkeys on the loose in US town after escaping lab - 8 Nov 2024
- Beaufort Co. research center 'has eyes on' 43 missing monkeys, officials say - 7 Nov 2024
- Dozens of monkeys run amok after fleeing S.C. research center - 7 Nov 2024
- More than 40 monkeys escape from South Carolina research facility - 7 Nov 2024
- Search underway for escaped monkeys in Yemassee. Keep doors and windows closed, police say - 7 Nov 2024
- 43 monkeys escape from a South Carolina medical lab. Police say there is no serious danger - 7 Nov 2024
- 40 monkeys on the loose in Yemassee, law enforcement officials say - 6 Nov 2024
- Watchdog group files federal complaint on Yemassee primate research lab - 23 Jul 2020
- Watchdog group files federal complaint on Yemassee primate research lab - 22 Jul 2020
- Monkey Facility Gets Millions in COVID-19 Contract - 19 Jul 2020
- Animal welfare group outraged after SC monkey facility gets $4.6M COVID-19 contract - 19 Jul 2022
- Yemassee animal research group, Alpha Genesis, fined after monkey mishaps at facility - 14 Jun 2018
- Yemassee monkey breeding facility fined $12K for escape violations - 13 Jun 2018
- New deaths at Yemassee ‘monkey farm’? Ohio animal rights group files complaint - 29 Aug 2017
- 'The stuff of nightmares': US primate research centers investigated for abuses - 28 October 2016
- Alpha Genesis, Inc. under fire for treatment of primates - 30 August 2016
- Monkey escape: USDA to ‘look into’ primate breakout at Yemassee facility - 2 May 2016
- Yemessee monkeys captured, lab under investigation - 2 May 2016
- USDA investigating monkey breeding facility in Yemassee - 2 Jan 2016
- Yemassee monkey facility targeted by federal investigation after reports of dead, injured animals - 31 Dec 2015
- 100 times more monkeys enter U.S. labs than chimps are leaving - 27 Nov 2015
- Watchdog group: Several monkey deaths, escapes and injuries at Yemassee lab - 18 Nov 2015
- Yemassee monkey research lab cited for filthy conditions - 2 May 2014
- Animal rights group calls foul on laboratory monkey experiments - 24 Apr 2015
- Animal rights group accuses Yemassee monkey lab of inhumane conditions - 14 Apr 2014
- Reported primate deaths cause animal rights concerns - 22 May 2013
- Animal-rights group files complaint against Yemassee facility in monkey deaths - 16 May 2013
- Monkey deaths at Lowcountry facility alarm animal activist group - 16 May 2013
- Watchdog group wants probe at SC primate facility - 12 Apr 2010
- Feds find no problems at SC monkey breeding company - 2 May 2008
Press Releases:
USDA - APHIS Reports:
USDA - Inspection Reports:
Complaint Letters:
Primate Morbidity Reports:
"These documents were obtained from a facility that had purchased
primates from Alpha Genesis. All of these primates arrived missing
digits from either hands or feet, one had "stripped hair coat on left
leg." These are minimally indications of stress and potentially
indications of severe mental pathologies."
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Rats, mice, birds, amphibians and other animals have
been excluded from coverage by the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore research
facility reports do not include these animals. As a result of this
situation, a blank report, or one with few animals listed, does not mean
that a facility has not performed experiments on non-reportable animals. A
blank form does mean that the facility in question has not used covered
animals (primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, pigs,
sheep, goats, etc.). Rats and mice alone are believed to comprise over 90%
of the animals used in experimentation. Therefore the majority of animals
used at research facilities are not even counted.