The last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi roadway has been found and captured, authorities said Thursday.

A resident who lives near the crash site called authorities to report the animal's location, and it was then "successfully recovered," the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said in a statement on social media .

It was the last monkey on the loose from an Oct. 28 crash when the truck carrying 21 monkeys overturned on Interstate 59. Five monkeys were killed as law officers hunted for them in the immediate aftermath of the crash. Video from officers' body cameras showed a chaotic scene as monkeys that escaped from their wooden crates dashed around the grassy interstate median, with some ru

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