It’s been more than 2 months since 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. On Friday it was announced that the final 4 missing primates were recaptured.

The final holdouts of a group of monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina over two months ago have been safely recaptured, the Yemassee Police Department announced on Friday.

More than three dozen monkeys escaped from the primate research facility last November after a keeper left their pen open. The Yemassee Police Department confirmed in a social med

Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November.

Since their escape nearly three months ago, the facility and the community have been slowly recovering the monkeys. Humans have been using the monkeys for scientific research since the late 1800s. Scientists believe rhesus macaques and humans split from a common ancestor about 25 million years ago and share about 93% of the same DNA.

Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.

Authorities in South Carolina said Friday the last four of 43 escaped monkeys have been recaptured after two months living in the woods, weathering a rare snowstorm and being temped back into captivity by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

The female rhesus macaques staged an escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina last year.