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re: Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys overturns in Jasper County
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:45 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:45 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" w/Dustin Hoffman & Rene Rousseau
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Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:50 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Outbreak
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:50 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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What kind of testing were they doing to those monkeys?
Retaliation whoever released Covid.
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:50 pm to WESB59
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Tulane has confirmed that it will send a crew to pick up the monkeys that are still caged on Wednesday.
Ehhh, we’ll get around to it.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:53 pm to Shexter
Gotta get the rat king on this.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:53 pm to Buzz Lightbeer
Looks like monkey business is huge in our little state
New Iberia is where they breed the monkeys to send to the research facilities.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/mtMSoh2bxwFzGUVZ9?g_st=ic
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The largest primate research center in the U.S. is the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), located at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It is the nation's largest academically affiliated center, housing more than 8,500 nonhuman primates.
Capacity: NIRC is home to over 8,500 nonhuman primates and is described as one of the largest primate centers in the United States.
Location: It is situated on an 118-acre site.
Specialization: The center specializes in the breeding, management, and importation of a diverse range of nonhuman primate species.
Research: NIRC offers a broad range of diagnostic, laboratory, and human resources for research aimed at promoting human quality of life.
Facilities: It includes over 485,000 square feet of buildings, with capabilities such as surgical suites and clinical pathology support.
New Iberia is where they breed the monkeys to send to the research facilities.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/mtMSoh2bxwFzGUVZ9?g_st=ic
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:53 pm to WESB59
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Does anyone know where one could purchase said monkeys
Sounds like if you got a car and a wrench you have until tomorrow to aquire one.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:54 pm to Horsemeat
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None of this adds up to me at all.
I don't think it could be any more straight forward. What specifically isn't adding up? Are you confused how something can escape from an overturned vehicle? Or confused that animals are transported in vehicles?
Animal in vehicle.
Vehicle crash.
Vehicle open up.
Animal leave vehicle.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:55 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Brian Kelly has lost control of the monkey transport network.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:55 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Not a fan of animals used for research
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:56 pm to LSUTANGERINE
'Aggressive' monkeys leaving Tulane escape in Mississippi crash, 'destroyed' by authorities
The Nola.com article has me scratching my head lol. The monkeys were "destroyed"??
The Nola.com article has me scratching my head lol. The monkeys were "destroyed"??
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Monkeys leaving Tulane University on Tuesday were captured and "destroyed" after they escaped a transport truck that crashed on Interstate 59 in Mississippi, according to the Jasper County Sheriff's Department. Jasper County is in the southeast portion of the state above the city of Laurel. The truck flipped near mile marker 117, allowing some of the monkeys to escape. The Sheriff's Department did not say how many monkeys escaped or how many were "destroyed," though some that were unable to break free from their cages will be returned to Tulane.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:57 pm to dallastigers
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According to Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson, the truck was hauling Rehsus monkeys from Tulane
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Officials said the animals weigh about 40 pounds each, are aggressive toward humans
They got these things roided up, or what?
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The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), colloquially rhesus monkey, is a species of Old World monkey in the Macaca genus. There are between six and nine recognised subspecies split between two groups, the Chinese-derived and the Indian-derived. Generally brown or grey in colour, it is 47–53 cm (19–21 in) in length with a 20.7–22.9 cm (8.1–9.0 in) tail and weighs 5.3–7.7 kg (12–17 lb).
LINK
I thought 40 pounds seemed a good bit bigger than what I thought these things were.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 3:59 pm to Roberteaux
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The monkeys were "destroyed"??
Probably killed.
Maybe some legal/scientific term/translation so it doesn't sound so bad.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:00 pm to Dantheman504
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None of this adds up to me at all.
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I don't think it could be any more straight forward.
The part that doesn't add up is how the middle of Mississippi is on the route between the research facility in Covington and the state of Florida. It's a good way north of I-10.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:01 pm to LSUTANGERINE
See y'all in 28 days
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:05 pm to Shexter
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The part that doesn't add up is how the middle of Mississippi is on the route between the research facility in Covington and the state of Florida. It's a good way north of I-10.
Again, it is likely that the truck isn't on a direct route. Could be transporting multiple styles of animals to different locations.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:05 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?
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Bueller?
Matthew Broderick was in Project X, the movie about a secret military project teaching chimps to fly.
This post was edited on 10/28/25 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:12 pm to LSUTANGERINE
There is pretty good sized research facility in San Antonio, had a friend that picked up a project to repair some of the cages. They moved the monkeys out of the first cage one day and he goes in welds in a new floor of the cage using the expanded metal supplied by the facility. The next day he goes back and there is blood and clumps of fur everywhere under the cage, apparently the expanded metal they supplied was just big enough for their nut sacks to go through but not big enough for them to slide back out and there were a bunch of pissed off, nutless monkeys found the next morning. True story.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:15 pm to VermilionTiger
Why?
Posted on 10/28/25 at 4:17 pm to Stat M Repairman
Theo was there in Covington whenever it happened in 1994
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