Late last year, as residents of a small Lowcountry town rounded up monkeys on the loose from a local breeding farm, work crews began preparing hundreds of other primates for grueling journeys across America’s highways.

Unmarked trucks left from a loading dock in rural Yemassee, bound for labs in Colorado and Montana that are known to use primates in deadly experiments, even as townsfolk near the massive Alpha Genesis monkey farm scoured the woods looking for frightened escapees.

South Carolina regulatory agencies take little notice of shipments in and out of the farm, one of the nation’s largest monkey vendors. The public has no way of knowing how often trucks leave the primate center, what the shipments contain or what their destination is. The information is treated as proprietary an

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