Animal rights nonprofit PETA on Thursday is demanding proof the 43 primates that escaped from a research facility in Yemassee last year, were indeed recovered b

The final holdouts of a group of monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina over two months ago have been safely recaptured, the Yemassee Police Department announced on Friday.

Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November.

The final four rhesus macaques of 43 that escaped from a Yemassee facility in November have been captured after a drama that made global headlines and spawned monkey socks, T-shirts and more.

The female rhesus macaques staged an escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina last year.

More than three dozen monkeys escaped from the primate research facility last November after a keeper left their pen open. The Yemassee Police Department confirmed in a social med