Published: Oct. 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) - A truck hauling “aggressive” monkeys overturned in Mississippi on Tuesday.
According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida after being at Tulane University.
The monkeys were 40 pounds and were “aggressive,” authorities said. They were also carrying hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.
In a Tuesday afternoon update, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said all of the escaped monkeys, except for one, “have been destroyed.”
The sheriff’s department is still looking for one of the monkeys that is still on the loose.
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks is on site with local law enforcement.
The incident happened on I-59 near mile marker 117, which is north of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says that Tulane University has been notified and will send a team to pick up the monkeys on Wednesday.
I saw this movie.
It didn’t go well.
Well aren’t you lucky, now you get to see it again, live!:-)
How many got loose?
12 you say…
…well um crap…
Well 2025 has had a distinctly apocalyptic vibe.
Why is it never the god damned mermaids?
The truck driver said the monkeys were infected, that’s the source for the sheriff’s department.
The university they came from said they weren’t, but they do have some monkeys that are, but they weren’t on this semi trailer.
The article might’ve been changed, because it doesn’t even say the truck driver said that. Covid and herpes aren’t mentioned anywhere
Why do we even have this
levertruck?Trucks are used for transportation.
I forgot to put this on my 2025 bingo card.
I am rooting for the one on the loose. I want to name him Luigi.
That last one was a Sumatran Rat Monkey. :o
Uhh
All but one “destroyed”. Sheesh. But, yeah, get that other one, too.
I had to read the title like four time.
As if I needed another reason to never go to Mississippi.
…regulations in Mississippi? none, accidents? high…
