The intrepid escape attempt took place on Saturday, as three baboons were able to leap over a perimeter wall set up at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio. The wall, according to the Washington Post, was designed to prevent the facility's 2,500 or so animals from escaping, and…
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Four baboons, having clearly read too much dystopian fiction, 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," which, in all…
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(CNN) - Four baboons, having clearly read too much dystopian fiction, 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," which,…
- Ingenious baboons escape Texas biomedical lab for brief taste of freedom
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…