“They’re jumping down and taking the food and then jumping back up on the fence and the tree line,” he said. “They’re watching us the same way we’re watching them.”
There would be a lengthy procedure to get them, he said. Chasing the monkeys, he said, would simply frighten them and cause them to flee. Westergaard said, “We’ve got them very close,”
“This is all like what we want to see.” Westergaard told CBS News on Thursday that a caregiver unintentionally left a door open at an enclosure, letting the monkeys go free.
It is similar to following the leader. Westergaard said, “You see one go and the others go.” “It was a group of 50 and 7 stayed behind and 43 bolted out the door.”
Land surveyor Daniel Vance told CBS News that he and a colleague saw several of the monkeys on Wednesday when they were having a lunch break nearby,
and he claimed to have taken video of them. To recapture the primates, the Yemassee Police Department said that many officers were collaborating with Alpha Genesis staff.
