First, monkeys escape a research facility; now, emus are on the run in South Carolina. On Wednesday, Horry County officials announced that two emus escaped from their owner after social media posts started circulating.

A “sizeable group” remains active along the compound's fence line and bedded down in the trees, police in Yemassee, about 50 miles northeast of Savannah, Georgia, said in a statement.

Authorities announced Monday that five additional monkeys had been recovered after nearly four dozen escaped from a South Carolina research facility. Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard told Yemassee police that 30 of the 43 escaped rhesus macaques have returned to the Yemassee facility.

Two large emus on the loose in South Carolina ruffled the feathers of locals a week after dozens of monkeys escaped from a research facility in the Palmetto State. Sam Morace flocked to social media to plead with Loris residents who reported sightings of the elusive,

A research facility in Yemassee, S.C., has recovered 25 of the 43 monkeys that escaped from the laboratory last week after a caretaker accidentally left the door to their enclosure unsecured.

A nonprofit wildlife sanctuary based out of Texas is urging Alpha Genesis to rehome the 43 primates who escaped a Beaufort County research facility last week. Born Free USA says it operates one of the largest primate sanctuaries in the country.

More than half of the monkeys that escaped a medical research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, last week have been recovered, but 18 remain on the loose. One was recaptured on Saturday and 24 more caught on Sunday.

"AVOID FLYING DRONES" in the area, local police warned, after a UAV apparently spooked the primates and disrupted capture efforts.