He escaped the monkey forrest and was saved, he finds a sanctuary after being injured in Mississippi
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The last monkey to escape from a transport van that crashed on Oct. 28 on Mississippi Highway has recovered safely and will spend the rest of his days at the Jersey Sangly Animal Sanctuary.
The truck was filled while hauling 21 rhesus macaque monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans for biomedical research.
Due to conflicting statements about the monkeys’ conditions, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office shot five of the animals, with 13 remaining.
Three others escaped, two of them were shot by local residents less than a week after the accident.
One monkey’s escape was photographed after the crash. It is not clear if one of the five was “finished” by the authorities. (Scotty Ray Report)
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The Popcorn Park animal sanctuary in Cool River, New Jersey, announced Tuesday that the last monkey, fenced in by the name of Forrest, was safely euthanized.
“[Forrest’s] “Life changed forever after the horror of the tragedy in Mississippi,” the refugee wrote in a Facebook post. Of these 3 emergency responders, they were only brought back a week later. Because he had spent so much time outside of this institution, he could not return to the research program. That’s when our team stepped in to give him a lifetime home at the Poporcorn Park animal shelter. “
Authorities say that when Forrest arrived at the facility, he did not have a name, the number emphasized, “NI 62.”
Rhesus monkeys escaped from the truck that hit Oct. 28 in Mississippi. (Jasper County Sheriff’s Department, Mississippi)
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“Now I live safely in our monkey house, forrest impresses you in his new home. He knows his caretakers and the monkeys in the neighborhood, he is building a little more faithfully every day,” the organization wrote. “He’s found a growing list of favorite foods (grapes topped the list!) and has even started rhyming, a good sign that he’s comfortable and confident in his new environment.”
Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA’s Senior Scientific Advisor for Testing, told FOX News Digital ForRest’s Survival is “a common thread of compassion in the program.”
“All federal agencies and labs need to face a simple truth: no monkey should need a truck accident to escape a bad situation,” Jones-Engel said in a statement. “After the accident, seven people were shot and killed and 13 were sent to bad lives and the long-awaited death of people by violence.
Research monkeys entered a truck that crashed on Oct. 28 in Mississippi. (Jasper County Sheriff’s Department, Mississippi)
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FOX News Digital previously reported that the monkeys are from the Tulane National Primate Center, which receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Tulane officials say they do not own the monkeys and are not responsible for their transportation.
After the incident, PETA and the non-governmental organization White Coast COUTE COUTE COUTE COURSE OF CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION ACTIVITIES (CDC) to stop expensive and ethical testing.
The CDC later admitted that it had removed all tests from the programs.
People in protective search searching the highway in Heidelberg, missed., Oct. 29, near the site of the overturned truck carrying research monkeys. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)
“Champagne cakes are pouring out from inside Peta’s headquarters today as we celebrate a huge victory for animals and science,” Peta President Heried Price Kathy Guillermo wrote in a Fox News Digital statement after the announcement. “Peta thanked the administration for taking this decisive, long-awaited action – one that has suppressed it from being seen and that shows that irrefutable trials do not help people one iota, as 4 attempts have failed to create a commercial HIV vaccine.”
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Guillermo added that, for years, endangered and often infected long-tailed macaques have been placed in seafood stores.
“The CDC’s own data shows monkeys arriving with tuberculosis, melioidosis and other viruses, weak testing protocols and a supply chain full of escapees,” he said. “PETA calls on the administration to withdraw from this success: close the breeding centers, close the breeding pipeline and move all federal agencies to state-of-the-art, relevant science.”
The CDC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
