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 monkeys escaped the Alpha Genesis facility in November after a caretaker failed to secure a door properly.

In early November, the monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Facility after a caretaker didn’t secure the doors, police said.

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

All 43 research monkeys that escaped a South Carolina facility in November have been safely recaptured, the Yemassee Police Department said in an update Friday.