There was animal mayhem in South Carolina as two emus went on the loose – while eight escaped monkeys were already at large. Reports of two large emus running riot in the city of Loris, in Horry County, SC, followed an incident last week when 43 monkeys escaped an Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County, SC, the Yemassee Police Department said.

More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered. As of Monday evening, 30 of the 43 furry runaways, that broke loose Wednesday from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemasee,