(Meredith/CNN) -- Four baboons escaped a biomedical research lab in San Antonio by climbing a 55-gallon barrel and jumping out of their enclosure. The Texas Biomedical Research Institute described the escape as an "animal perimeter breach incident." According to a news release from the TBRI,…
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- Baboons break out of a research center using a barrel
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