Posted on 10/28/2025 3:54:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A truck hauling monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi highway, freeing several large, "aggressive" monkeys.
After the wreck, which happened north of Heidelberg, multiple rhesus monkeys escaped into the community, according to the Jasper County Sheriff's Office.
"The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle," the sheriff's office wrote in a Facebook post.
The animals carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, deputies said.
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They should head to Jackson; they’ll blend right in.
“...and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle...”
No telling what diseases they are carrying and was driver able to speak English?
I’d be pissed too if I were a research monkey.
Why would Tulane hire such promiscuous monkeys?
no worries, the murder wasps will get em
DEATH MONKEYS
When there is a wreck chances are a non-English understanding driver is in the big rig.
mark
Where were they going?
These poor monkeys. All kinds of viruses forced on them over the years. I hope they get a few good moments of freedom and get a merciful quick death. Maybe they can bite one of the lab people that tortured them.
In our government? LOL
“The animals carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, deputies said.” “they are aggressive to humans,..”
Kept caged in a lab for who knows how long. Infected, probably deliberately, with nasty diseases. Battered in a truck wreck. Now hungry and lost in some wretched Mississippi swamp. Can’t imagine why they would be aggressive to humans...
Thank you. This is one of the funniest comments I've read here on FR.
Since when did they start calling public transit busses “Trucks?”
Well, thanks, ma’am.
Those are Rhesus macaques, which are particularly dangerous even if they’re not carrying contagion because they’re wicked smart, aggressive when in groups, and they cooperate and coordinate their mischief with their fellow monkeys.
Have they tried looking for a man with a yellow hat?
South Memphis
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