The monkey madness in Yemassee has come to an end: The final one has been captured. Alpha Genesis Primate Research Facility reported that 43 rhesus macaques escaped from the facility on Nov. 7 after a caretaker did not properly secure the doors.

The female rhesus macaques staged an escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina last year.

The final holdouts of a group of monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina over two months ago have been safely recaptured, the Yemassee Police Department announced on Friday.

The last of 43 escaped monkeys has returned to the Alpha Genesis research lab in Yemassee, S.C., nearly three months after an attendant accidentally left two doors unsecured.

Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November.

More than three dozen monkeys escaped from the primate research facility last November after a keeper left their pen open. The Yemassee Police Department confirmed in a social med