Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."

It’s a jungle out there! Multiple emus on the loose in South Carolina – while 8 escaped lab monkeys also still large - ‘They are feral and not trained like the ones we have at the house’

Authorities say Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research.

Yes, escaped lab monkeys. Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, on Wednesday after an employee accidentally left a door open. Yemassee Police Chief Gregory Alexander told the AP, "They are not infected with any disease whatsoever. They are harmless and a little skittish."

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. ( WMBF /Gray News) – More than a week after 43 monkeys escaped a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, residents in the state are on the lookout for someone’s pet emus. Artie Morace, 71, said two of his three emus got loose during two incidents earlier this year in June.