Mississippi mom shoots escaped research monkey in her backyard

Jessica Bond Ferguson, a mom of five and a professional chef in Heidelberg, Mississippi, woke up Sunday morning to her teenage son's urgent warning: there was a monkey in the yard. As it turns out, this monkey was one of several rhesus macaques that had escaped the week before, after a truck carrying them (en route to a biomedical research facility) overturned on the highway. — Read the rest
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