JASPER COUNTY, Miss. ( WLBT /Gray News) - Those in the small town of Heidelberg are dealing with the reality that aggressive monkeys are on the loose after a trailer carrying them overturned.

“I thought it was a joke at first,” Kinzie Henry, a Heidelberg native, said. “I was in Michigan when I first heard. I thought everybody was messing with me, but then I looked it up online. It’s kind of surreal. Kind of like a movie or something, you know?”

Tuesday, Jasper County officials arrived near highway mile-marker 117, where they found an overturned truck hauling 21 monkeys to a testing facility in Florida.

As of Tuesday night, officials say three of those monkeys were still missing, five were dead, with 13 others recaptured.

Tulane University officials sent a team to Heidelberg to assi

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