Monkey See, Monkey Flee: 43 Rhesus Rebels Are on the Loose, Meme Coins Go Bananas

You’re mad in regards to the election outcomes; we get it. However guess who else is seeing pink? Monkeys.

On Wednesday, authorities in Yemassee, South Carolina, issued an alert that greater than 40 rhesus macaque Monkeys had bolted from the Alpha Genesis analysis facility and vanished.

That’s proper, an entire crew of disgruntled primates is now on the free—most likely plotting their subsequent transfer.

Information of the monkey horde’s escape despatched the worth of monkey-themed meme cash surging, together with the Solana-based Monkey token, by 49.0% on Thursday.

However what are the monkeys after? Some on X point to a authorities conspiracy to cease the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump.

“These are very artful monkeys,” an X consumer wrote. “They have been engaged on the escape plan for 4 days.”

“Residents are urged to maintain their doorways and home windows securely closed and to report any sightings instantly by dialing 911,” the Yemassee Police Division said on Fb. “Please don’t try and strategy these animals below any circumstances.”

On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, Yemassee Police obtained an alert from Alpha Genesis that 43 Rhesus Macaque monkeys had mysteriously busted out of their enclosures on the facility on Fortress Corridor Rd.

Recognized for utilizing monkeys in scientific trials for mind problems, Alpha Genesis now faces a plot twist worthy of the 1995 thriller “Outbreak.” Simply how the primates staged their nice escape continues to be anybody’s guess—these little escape artists aren’t speaking.

Whereas the escape is probably not a conspiracy towards the longer term President or the prelude to a different international pandemic, the reply could possibly be far worse. The escape could possibly be the start of the long-anticipated monkey rebellion from the 1968 sci-fi movie “Planet of the Apes.”

Whereas visions of people being enslaved by rebellious monkeys could also be sufficient to make Charlton Heston go ape, the monkeys could have determined to flee in protest of the demise of social media darling Peanut the Squirrel, which went viral on social media final week.

Or perhaps somebody simply left the door unlocked.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair and Josh Quittner