Four baboons briefly escaped from the lab where they were being tested by medical researchers in San Antonio on Saturday. The center experiments on nearly 1,100 baboons that are used for biomedical research of chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes. Where was PETA? They missed a…
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- 4 baboons from West Side 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 Saturday…
- Watch: 4 baboons briefly escape from enclosure at Texas research facility
Those three were captured by the facility's animal capture team within 30 minutes, and the fourth was later accounted for as well. Each of the primates were evaluated by veterinary staff at the facility and are well, the facility said. The center houses nearly 1,100 baboons, which are used for…
- SAPD: Drunken argument leads to stabbing on Northeast Side
A man was hospitalized early Sunday after he was stabbed in the arm during an argument at an apartment complex on the Northeast Side, police said. The victim, who has not been identified, was drinking in the parking lot of the Terrace Apartments in the 11300 block of Roszell Street with another…
- 4 baboons recovered after brief escape from research center
SAN ANTONIO — Four baboons are accounted for after a brief escape from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's Southwest National Primate Research Center. According to the center, four baboons left their enclosure. Three of them were able to get out of the perimeter fencing of the center's…