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Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys overturns in Jasper County
Posted on 10/28/25 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 2:49 pm
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JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - A truck hauling monkeys has overturned in Jasper County. According to Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson, the truck was hauling monkeys to a testing facility in Florida when it overturned around the 117-mile marker just north of Heidelberg.
Several monkeys are reportedly on the loose. Johnson says that if you see the monkeys, you should not approach them and to call 911 immediately. The monkeys reportedly pose potential health threats and are aggressive. .
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Posted on 10/28/25 at 2:51 pm to LSUTANGERINE
nah, too easy.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 2:51 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 10/28/25 at 2:51 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys overturns in Jasper County
Damn. Did not have that on my 2025 bingo card.
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 2:55 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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The monkeys reportedly pose potential health threats
What kind of testing were they doing to those monkeys?
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:03 pm to LSUTANGERINE
as an aside, why was the truck hauling something from Tulane in New Orleans headed up north on I-59 around Meridian to go to Florida? 
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:04 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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aggressive monkeys
Is there any other kind?
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:05 pm to LSUTANGERINE
For the life of me, I can’t think of the name of that movie where a monkey escaped and a town was going to be destroyed by the government or something like that. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:05 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I’m not saying this is ideal, but this is the perfect time of year for something like this to happen.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:06 pm to LSUTANGERINE
WAFB LINK.
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Officials said the animals weigh about 40 pounds each, are aggressive toward humans and require personal protective equipment to handle. The monkeys also carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, authorities said.
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Tulane advised that if any of the monkeys leave the wreck site they should be shot, officials said.
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Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:06 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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According to Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson, the truck was hauling Rehsus monkeys from Tulane University to a testing facility in Florida when it overturned around the 117-mile marker just north of Heidelberg.
Wonder if driver has a California license…
Does Tulane have a testing facility using monkeys that would make sense for this truck to be driving thru Jasper County in Mississippi to deliver the monkeys in Florida?
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According to Johnson, the monkeys carry hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID. Tulane has confirmed that it will send a crew to pick up the monkeys that are still caged on Wednesday.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:06 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Some old baw is about to have the taxidermy piece of the year in up ere in Jasper county.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:07 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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For the life of me, I can’t think of the name of that movie where a monkey escaped and a town was going to be destroyed by the government or something like that. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
Outbreak
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:07 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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The monkeys reportedly pose potential health threats and are aggressive. .
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:09 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys overturns in Jasper County, Miss
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:10 pm to dallastigers
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Tulane University.... Florida
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overturned in Heidelberg, Mississippi
Tulane National Primate Research Center
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The TNPRC is situated in 500 acres of land in Covington, Louisiana, and originally opened as the Delta Regional Primate Center in 1964. The center uses five types of non-human primates in its research: cynomolgus macaques, African green monkeys, mangabeys, pig-tailed macaques and rhesus macaques. The TNPRC employs over three hundred people and has an estimated economic impact of $107.1 million a year
Detour around the Mobile tunnel?
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:16 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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All but one of the escaped monkeys have been destroyed. We have been in contact with an animal diposal company to help handle the situation.
Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries is also on site with our local law enforcement.
We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:18 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Wasn't there a set of monkeys loose in the last couple of years in the northeast... and I think we had some escape in south carolina too.
You think there'd be some more rigorous precautions in place.
You think there'd be some more rigorous precautions in place.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:18 pm to LSUTANGERINE
None of this adds up to me at all.
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:19 pm to I-59 Tiger
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why was the truck hauling something from Tulane in New Orleans headed up north on I-59 around Meridian to go to Florida?
Monkey business.
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