Forrest, the last escaped monkey from Mississippi highway crash, finds new life at New Jersey sanctuary

The last monkey who escaped from a transport van that crashed Oct. 28 connected a Mississippi road has been safely recovered and volition walk the remainder of his days astatine a New Jersey carnal sanctuary.

The motortruck flipped portion hauling 21 rhesus macaque monkeys from Tulane University successful New Orleans for biomedical research.

Due to conflicting statements astir the monkeys' conditions, the Jasper County Sheriff's Office fatally changeable 5 of the animals, with 13 remaining caged.

Three others escaped, 2 of whom were changeable by section residents wrong a week aft the crash.

One monkey escapee was photographed aft the crash. It is unclear if it was 1 of the 5 "eliminated" by the authorities. (Scotty Ray Report)

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The Popcorn Park Animal Refuge successful Forked River, New Jersey, announced Tuesday the last monkey, who has been named Forrest, was safely rescued.

"[Forrest's] beingness changed everlastingly aft a frightening road mishap successful Mississippi," the refuge wrote successful a Facebook post. "Of the 3 remaining escapees, Forrest was the past and lone 1 to survive, safely recovered aft astir a week connected the run. Because helium had spent truthful overmuch clip extracurricular of the facility, helium could not instrumentality to the probe program. That’s erstwhile our squad stepped successful to connection him lifelong sanctuary astatine Popcorn Park Animal Refuge."

Officials said erstwhile Forrest arrived astatine the facility, helium did not person a name, lone a tattooed recognition number, "NI 62."

Rhesus monkeys escaped from a motortruck that crashed Oct. 28 successful Mississippi. (Jasper County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi)

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"Now surviving safely successful our Monkey House, Forrest is steadily acclimating to his caller home. He’s getting to cognize his caretakers and his neighboring monkeys, dilatory gathering spot time by day," the enactment wrote. "He has discovered a increasing database of favourite foods (grapes topping the list!) and has adjacent begun vocalizing, a bully motion that helium is becoming much comfy and assured successful his caller surroundings."

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) elder subject advisor connected primate experimentation Lisa Jones-Engel told Fox News Digital Forrest's endurance is "a uncommon thread of mercy successful a strategy built connected violence."

"Every national bureau and laboratory needs to face a elemental truth: nary monkey should request a motortruck clang to flight a unspeakable fate," Jones-Engel wrote successful a statement. "After the crash, 7 were changeable dormant and 13 were sent connected to the aforesaid miserable lives and deaths that awaited them earlier the wreck. Only 1 survived agelong capable to beryllium pulled retired of the pipeline—a young macaque present called Forrest. His endurance is simply a uncommon thread of mercy successful a strategy built connected violence. The mode to forestall this fearfulness successful the aboriginal is to unopen the manufacture down immediately."

The probe monkeys were aboard a motortruck that crashed Oct. 28 successful Mississippi. (Jasper County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi)

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Fox News Digital antecedently reported the monkeys came from the Tulane National Primate Research Center, which receives backing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

Tulane officials said they did not ain the monkeys and were not liable for their transport.

Following the incident, PETA and nonprofit enactment White Coat Waste Project called connected the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt NIH backing for the costly and morally arguable primate testing.

The CDC aboriginal agreed to signifier retired each experiments connected monkeys.

People successful protective covering hunt on a road successful Heidelberg, Miss., Oct. 29, adjacent the tract of an overturned motortruck that was carrying probe monkeys. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

"Champagne corks are popping inside PETA's office contiguous arsenic it celebrates a tremendous triumph for animals and for science," PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo wrote successful a connection to Fox News Digital aft the announcement. "PETA acknowledgment the medication for taking this decisive, agelong awaited action—one we’ve pressed for nonstop and that reflects what the undeniable grounds that experiments connected monkeys aren’t helping humans 1 iota, arsenic the four-decade failed effort to make a marketable HIV vaccine has shown."

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Guillermo added that for years, endangered and often infected long-tailed macaques person been funneled into U.S. laboratories. 

"CDC’s ain information shows monkeys arriving with tuberculosis, melioidosis, and different pathogens, weak investigating protocols, and a proviso concatenation riddled with escapes, illness lapses, and regulatory failures," she said. "PETA is calling connected the medication to physique connected this breakthrough: unopen down the primate centers, extremity the monkey-import pipeline, and determination each national bureau toward state-of-the-art, human-relevant science."

The CDC did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.