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  • Brilliant Baboons Escape From Texas Biolab Using Their Captors' Own Barrels

    Using just a 55-gallon barrel, three baboons liberated themselves the confines of a biomedical research facility this weekend for about half an hour before they were captured and ... San Antonio news outlet KSAT reported that witnesses were concerned the baboons were carrying infectious disease…

  • Baboons Escape Texas Research Facility

    Four baboons at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio,Texas, rolled a 250-liter barrel to the edge of the pen they were being kept in, and hopped the fence, Metro reports. The primates were actually caught on video making a run for their freedom along a road near the research…

  • Baboons best human caretakers to bust out of research center

    The primates outsmarted their human caretakers Saturday by rolling the barrel upright against the wall of their open-air enclosure at Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, officials said. They climbed the barrel to scale the fence and took off – sending an animal care team on a…

  • Baboons use barrel to escape Texas research facility, officials say

    The four animals escaped the Southwest National Primate Research Center at around 3:15 p.m. Saturday, according to News 4 San Antonio. The baboons usually play with the 55-gallon ... I mean, they're really key to those advances in biomedical research." Dr. John Bernal told News 4 San Antonio.…

  • Four Clever Baboons Escaped Over The Wall At Texas Research Facility

    The clever primates propped barrels up against the walls of the facility in San Antonio and broke free by jumping over the fence. Three of the baboons ... The three intrepid escapees from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute were recaptured after just half an hour out in the fresh air. The…