HEIDELBERG, Miss. — Tulane officials reiterated Wednesday that monkeys missing in Mississippi after a truck crash didn't belong to the university and a team it sent to help following the accident was on-site only to assist.

The university said its National Biomedical Research Center provides "nonhuman primates" to other research organizations to benefit science. Mississippi officials say a vehicle transporting 21 Rhesus macaques crashed Tuesday. Three were still at large Wednesday. Others were destroyed.

"The nonhuman primates were not being transported by Tulane, not owned by Tulane, and not in Tulane’s custody," university spokeswoman Stacey Plaisance said Wednesday. "The primates in question were not carrying any diseases and had received recent checkups confirming that they were path

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