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  • PETA responds to baboon escape, points to primate deaths at research facility, past violations

    SAN ANTONIO - One of the world's most popular animal rights groups responded to the Saturday escape of four baboons from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's Southwest National Primate Research Center, pointing to past violations and primate deaths at the facility. Several documents…

  • Baboons used 55-gallon barrel to escape from San Antonio research facility, officials say

    Texas Biomedical Research Institute officials are making changes to their enclosure after four baboons briefly escaped from the facility on Saturday. The animal care team determined the baboons rolled a 55-gallon barrel upright near a wall of their open-air enclosure, then climbed it, which…

  • Caught on camera: Baboons escape research facility

    SAN ANTONIO, TX (KSAT/CNN) - Four baboons were on the run in Texas and the challenge of getting them back to a research facility they escaped from ... But the baboon Bouton saw on her way to the store is only one of four that escaped the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, a facility that…

  • 4 Baboons at Texas Research Center Have Brief Freedom

    Four baboons are back in an enclosure after escaping briefly from a San Antonio medical research center. ... Officials at the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which is part of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, say three of the baboons were captured within about 30 minutes…

  • 4 baboons escape Texas research facility

    The baboons left their enclosure and got out of the perimeter fence of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, according to ... of the animals, personnel and our neighbors in the surrounding area,” the Texas Biomedical Research Institute said in a statement, according to…