Three research monkeys are still on the loose after a truck carrying the primates going from Louisiana to Florida overturned in Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon.

After the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department initially said that all but one of the escaped rhesus macaque monkeys had been “destroyed” due to law enforcement’s understanding that the species was dangerous and carrying diseases, Sheriff Randy Johnson reported a miscount.

He originally said a total of 21 monkeys were on the truck and six had gotten loose. Deputies then shot and killed five of the monkeys after the truck’s driver told them the monkeys posed a threat to humans. Upon animal experts from Tulane University, where the monkeys were traveling from, arriving to the scene Tuesday evening, it was confirmed that three are st

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