JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WKRG) — Several monkeys escaped after a truck transporting them from Tulane University crashed Tuesday afternoon on a Jasper County highway.

Crates spilled along the roadside after the truck left the roadway and hit the median, said Scotty Ray, who recorded the aftermath on his phone.

“The truck left the roadway and crashed into the median there,” said Scotty Ray.

“We realized quickly that the ones that were busted were the ones that had the monkeys missing, and it was five of them. And there’s no telling how many total monkeys there were there,” 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 roadw

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