Escaped pet primate in South Carolina was not recaptured alive, official says

CNN — An escaped monkey recently recovered in South Carolina was not captured alive, a county official said Thursday, several days after an earlier statement said the “attempts to capture” the animal “were successful.” “I can confirm that the monkey was not captured alive,” Colleton County Deputy Administrator Meagan Utsey told CNN, referring to Bradley, a 15-year-old macaque who escaped from his home in Walterboro, South Carolina, 48 miles west of Charleston. “We have no information related to what happened except what the owner has shared with us.” On Monday, Colleton County Animal Services said in a news release that “attempts to capture Bradley were successful,” citing the monkey’s owner. “Animal Control and the Sheriff’s Office have received numerous tips as to Bradley’s location but because of the attention this situation has caused on social media and news channels, people who are trying to get a look at Bradley are sadly hampering the owner’s efforts to catch him,” said animal services director Laura Clark. The sheriff’s office had received a report of the primate “attempting to attack a resident’s dog in a yard,” according to South Carolina news station WLTX.