From Highway Escape to Safe Haven, Forrest the Monkey Starts a New Chapter

Escaped lab monkey survives crash, finds new home at New Jersey animal refuge

What was supposed to be a routine trip turned into a chaotic journey for one lab monkey, who now has a safe new home at a New Jersey animal refuge.

Former research monkey that escaped Miss. highway wreck finds new home at Lacey animal refuge

A rhesus macaque that was one of a number of research monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last fall has found a new home at the Popcorn Park Animal Refuge.

From highway escape to safe haven, Forrest the monkey starts a new chapter

Forrest, the lone survivor who escaped after a highway crash involving research animals, is settling into permanent refuge after a week on the run.

Forrest, final escaped rhesus monkey captured after crash, finds home at sanctuary

We finally know what happened to the final rhesus monkey that had escaped after a truck crash in Mississippi.

Mississippi escaped lab monkey finds refuge at Popcorn Park in Lacey

Escaped Monkey Finds Home At Popcorn Park

LACEY – When a truck carrying 21 monkeys crashed in Mississippi, news about it came out almost as fast as the monkeys fleeing the truck.   The news cycle spins quickly, though, and soon those animals left the public discourse – but that didn’t mean that their story was over.   The truck was carrying 21 rhesus macaques for biomedical research, officials said. Eight of them escaped the truck and five of those died soon after.   That left just thre…