Authorities say two monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

"Use Beppo's words," mission operator James Austin Johnson suggests to Mulaney, who takes a deep breath. "Beppo no go home.

This is not South Carolina’s first rodeo with monkeys on the loose. The Post and Courier in Beaufort County reported that 19 ...

Australian scientists have tested an old adage claiming that a monkey could eventually write ... works of William Shakespeare by sheer chance. Chimp movie star Kokomo Jr. in 1957.

Forty-three rhesus macaque monkeys escaped from the research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, and several are still ...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, a monkey could in theory ...

“It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works,” the ...

while live monkeys perform even worse. Based on 200,000 living chimpanzees and a lifespan of 30 years, and assuming the chimp population somehow remains stable without taking time off typing for ...

For their calculations, the team assumed the monkeys were using a keyboard containing 30 keys – the 26 letters of the English alphabet, plus the most common punctuation marks. Each chimp is ...

But the chances of a monkey succeeding in typing even a short phrase quickly become vanishingly small, with the phrase “I chimp, therefore I am” coming in at one in 10 million billion billion.

They also assumed that each chimpanzee would type one key per second for every second of the day, with each monkey having a working lifespan of just over 30 years. Using these assumptions ...

It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works Study authors ...