A truck carrying about a hundred laboratory monkeys crashes, and the macaques escape.
It happens in Pennsylvania, in the United States: the truck, bound for Florida, had an accident colliding with a dump truck. Three monkeys took advantage of this to earn their freedom, triggering a hunt by the police - with helicopters and thermal cameras - which appealed not to approach the animals.
Pennsylvania State Police released an image of a primate perched in a tree at the edge of Route 54.
Cynomolgus monkeys, also known as long-tailed macaques, can cost up to $ 10,000 each and are particularly in demand for coronavirus vaccine research, according to the New York Times.
Unfortunately, their fate was sealed: as the local news site WNEP reports citing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when the three specimens were found they were euthanized.
(Unioneonline / D)
