Umm FYI folks. Pretty much 90%+ of the Rhesus Macaque population carries B virus as a latent infection.
Anyhoo, odds are it got run over and it unrecognizable. From my experience working on a primate center, the primates come back after a day or so when they get hungry.
I don’t know, I work in a lab and we periodically have an animal disappear, never to be seen again. Granted, they are mostly mice or guinea pigs—but the little buggers still manage to outsmart us sometimes. You’d think a monkey would have been noticed as it wandered out the door, so it’s quite likely that it was actually stolen. If, by some chance, it did escape then I’m with CRorex on this one. The monkey’s toast. Lab animals are generally raised to be just that, they have zero experience in the wild and would likely not last for long.
The quote by English is pretty funny. Considering B virus is a restricted pathogen (or in the process of being termed one) and of the 26 known B-virus cases 1 person somehow had his infection go latent and then suddenly expressed virus and died 10 years after his last possible exposure to the virus. Everyone else was dead within a week or a week in a half.
Wouldn’t it blow your mind to be the animal control agent cleaning up that roadkill? After a career full of squirrels, possums and the occasional housepet, some SUV on the highway hits a monkey.
I don’t get what’s the problem with English’s opinion. They’re proposing to build a new biomed facility to study primates with virulent and uncurable diseases in the area, and then you hear that a monkey just happened to take a day trip from the facility they’ve got there now… wouldn’t that bother you too?