Six monkeys were still on the loose early Monday after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, according to authorities.

Two more Rhesus macaques were trapped Sunday outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, bringing the total of recovered monkeys to 37 of the 43 that escaped, Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard said in a statement relayed by Yemassee Police in a social media post.

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    1 day ago

    I’m still rooting for Escobar’s cocaine hippos. I know they’re bad for the environment but so are we. Let the hippos be!

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      22 hours ago

      They will end up really damaging the Amazon river ecology in some horrible ways because of their poop.

      They almost introduced hippos to America as a source of meat, but hippos are too angry, so they gave up on that idea.

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      1 day ago

      I know they are very cute and it’s not their fault that they exist there, but I think they should be euthanized.