All monkeys “have been accounted for” after a truck carrying 100 of the creatures crashed in Pennsylvania on Friday, according to local police. Several monkeys had escaped following the collision.
Three of the monkeys had to be euthanized, according to The Associated Press.
On Friday afternoon, police tweeted that “a small number of monkeys may have fled the crash scene into the surrounding area” after a trailer carrying more than 100 monkeys collided with a dump truck. The truck had been on its way to a lab, Trooper Andrea Pelachick told The Daily Item newspaper of Sunbury.
It is not clear whether anyone was injured in the crash.
According to AP, the monkeys arrived Friday from Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, and were being taken to a quarantine facility at the time of the crash.
