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Officials in the southern U.S. state of South Carolina have recaptured the last of 43 monkeys who escaped from a farm that raises monkeys in early November.

11月初，饲养猴子的农场逃出43只猴子，现在美国南部南卡罗来纳州的官员已经再捕获了最后一只。

The chief executive of Alpha Genesis research center, Greg Westergaard, said the final four recaptured monkeys appeared to be in good health.

Alpha Genesis研究中心首席执行官格雷格·韦斯特加德表示，最后被捕获的四只猴子似乎健康状况良好。

The remaining monkeys had spent weeks living in the woods and even experienced a rare snowstorm.

剩下的猴子已经在树林里生活了数周，甚至经历了一场罕见的暴风雪。

Alpha Genesis is a company that offers services to biomedical researchers.

Alpha Genesis是一家为生物医学研究人员提供服务的公司。

Some locals call it "the monkey farm."

一些当地人称之为“猴子农场”。

The animals – all female rhesus macaque monkeys – escaped from the grounds of the company on November 6.

这些动物——都是雌性恒河猴——于11月6日逃离了公司的场地。

Police who investigated the incident said the monkeys escaped when an employee did not fully secure their enclosure.

调查这一事件的警方表示，当一名工作人员没有完全保护好它们的围栏时，猴子逃跑了。

Westergaard explained in November that workers were supposed to lock one gate before opening another, but all three gates were left unsecure.

韦斯特加德去年11月解释说，工人们应该先锁上一扇大门，然后再打开另一扇大门，但所有三扇大门都没有关上。

Employees at Alpha Genesis tried to persuade the monkeys to return with offers of special foods.

Alpha Genesis的员工试图说服猴子回来，并提供特殊食物。

These included peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and "monkey biscuits" – a high-protein food made specially for rhesus macaques.

这些食物包括花生酱、果冻三明治和“猴子饼干”——一种专门为恒河猴制作的高蛋白食物。

Alpha Genesis employees kept an eye on the monkeys and set out humane traps.

Alpha Genesis的员工密切关注着猴子，并设置了人道陷阱。

Most of the animals came back to eat the food.

大多数动物回来吃食物。

Most of the monkeys did not go far.

大多数猴子都没有走多远。

The animals are about the size of a cat, weighing around 3 kilograms.

这些动物的大小与猫差不多，重约3公斤。

The monkeys never represented a risk to public health, police and federal health officials said.

警方和联邦卫生官员表示，这些猴子从未对公共卫生构成风险。

During the time they were free, the area received its first snow in seven years, measuring up to 8 centimeters.

在他们自由期间，该地区迎来了七年来的第一场雪，雪厚达8厘米。

The Alpha Genesis company raises the monkeys to sell to medical labs and other researchers.

Alpha Genesis公司饲养这些猴子并出售给医学实验室和其他研究人员。

Humans have been using the monkeys for scientific research since the late 1800s.

自1800年代末以来，人类一直在利用猴子进行科学研究。

Scientists believe rhesus macaques and humans split from a common ancestor about 25 million years ago and share about 93 percent of the same DNA.

科学家们认为，恒河猴和人类大约在2500万年前从一个共同的祖先中分离出来，拥有93%的相同DNA。

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