JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WKRG) — Three monkeys are still on the loose after a truck transporting several test monkeys from Tulane University crashed on I-59 in Jasper County, Miss. Tuesday afternoon.

“The truck left the roadway and crashed into the median there,” said Scotty Ray, who recorded the aftermath on his phone.

Crates spilled along the side of the interstate freeing six of the 21 monkeys, according to our sister station WHLT.

“We realized quickly that the ones that were busted were the ones that had the monkeys missing," Ray continued.

Ray said he saw three of the 40-pound mammals walking around.

“They were definitely some form of a lab monkey,” Ray said. “They (police) had eyes on all the ones that were still in the middle (of the roadway) there.”

Ray said Mississippi Wildlife

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