Emory research monkey probably searching for home, researchers say
And she desperately wants to find her way home.
The young rhesus monkey, who has been missing from a Lawrenceville-based research facility since June 15, is almost certainly looking for food, sleep and her family, researchers said.
Ep13 did not run away from Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station, they believe. She ran because that's what monkeys do. Now she's probably running to return to those familiar comforts.
"She's probably freaking out trying to get back in," said Christine Drea, a Duke University professor who studies mammalian social behavior and did her doctoral research at Yerkes. "My guess is that she ran, took advantage of the opportunity and is probably regretting it now."
But even with a natural desire to return home, Ep13 remains an elusive fugitive.
Rhesus macaques are notoriously hard to capture. They're smart, fast and adaptable. The only primates with a broader geographic distribution across the Earth are humans.
Perhaps she fled into the nearby woods. Maybe she found shelter in the surrounding Gwinnett County suburbs. Maybe she kept going, venturing far outside of metro Atlanta. Yerkes has taken calls from people in other counties claiming to have seen her.
Or maybe, as Yerkes officials believe, Ep13 could still be somewhere in or around the 117-acre facility. There are plenty of places for a monkey to hide at the field station. Twenty-five open-air compounds -- each about the size of a soccer field -- cover about one-third of the property and the rest is flush with wooded areas.
"What we know is that rhesus monkeys are social animals," said Lisa Newburn, a Yerkes spokeswoman. "Young ones wants to stay close to their family. That's what she knows."
Yerkes officials met Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to discuss steps they have taken. The USDA issued a brief report summing up that the search was still inconclusive.
Staff members are now going through the compounds, scrutinizing each monkey for the identifying tattoo on their chest. This will take time. Yerkes is home to 1,899 rhesus macaques and 2,220 animals overall. They're also scouring the research center's grounds.
If that doesn't work, the next step would likely be setting out fruit-laden traps.
Wildlife trappers said Yerkes' best hope is that Ep13 somehow finds her way back home.
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