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Morgan Island is located in St. Helena Sound in Beaufort County, South Carolina. It's just over an hour north of Savannah, Georgia, and two hours south of Charleston, South Carolina.
On the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina, exists an island dedicated to monkeying around. Well, sort of. If you've been keeping up with the 43 primates that recently escaped a scientific search ...
As far as unique destinations go few places have Morgan Island beat. Tucked away in the St. Helena Sound, off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina sits Morgan Island. It's made up of more than ...
Alpha Genesis in 2023 secured a federal contract to monitor and care for 3,500 rhesus monkeys that live on South Carolina's Morgan Island, which commonly is known as "Monkey Island." ...
A monkey perches on a tree in Morgan Island, South Carolina. The island is home to a breeding colony of approximately 3,500 free-ranging, Indian-origin rhesus monkeys.
Alpha Genesis maintains a colony of 3,500 monkeys on Morgan Island, in South Carolina — which has since been called Monkey Island — where it breeds monkeys for research purposes.
As part of the exercise, the agencies tested their personnel, resources and capabilities on the water by deploying boom, a temporary barrier designed to contain oil. A Coast Guard Station Elizabeth ...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease sent $4.1 million to a South Carolina company managing a primate colony on a Lowcountry barrier island.