This is not South Carolina’s first rodeo with monkeys on the loose. The Post and Courier in Beaufort County reported that 19 monkeys escaped from the same facility in 2016, but they were returned after six hours. CNN’s Jillian Sykes contributed to this report.

Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."