Three of the baboons leaped over the wall that pens in some 2,500 animals, including 1,100 baboons, used to “aid our scientists in the search for new diagnostics, drug therapies and vaccines,” the San Antonio lab said. The fourth tried to make a run for it but appears to have gotten cold feet…
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