Fellas.
I need you to follow me closely on this one.
Because this story has LAYERS.
A Florida company receives a shipment of THREE HUNDRED research monkeys.
Three hundred.
They unpack the crates.
They put the monkeys in quarantine cages.
They throw away the wooden shipping crates.
And then they go home.
Nobody counted. Nobody checked. NOBODY noticed that one monkey was still IN one of those crates.
That crate went into the BIOHAZARD WASTE DUMPSTER.
And that monkey sat there FOR FIVE DAYS.
This is a real story, from Immokalee, Florida, January 2026.
The company is called BC US.
They import long-tailed macaques from Mauritius and sell them to research laboratories.
And they literally lost count of a living primate.
Here is why this is bigger than just Florida absurdism.
These monkeys are under FEDERAL QUARANTINE.
According to PETA, imported macaques can carry tuberculosis, Shigella, Salmonella, and herpes B virus.
The CDC requires each animal to be individually caged and quarantined.
That is not a suggestion — that is PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE.
This monkey spent five days — FIVE DAYS — loose in a biohazard waste dumpster.
Then got loaded onto a truck and driven TWO HOURS across the state to Miami.
Sat in that dumpster over a WEEKEND at the waste facility.
Nobody knew he was gone.
BC US didn't call anyone. No alert. No census. No accountability.
As PETA put it — and I'm quoting directly — "No one ticked a box."
That's the real story here.
Not just the monkey — the SYSTEM that let this happen.
Number one.
The shipment arrived January 27th — a 28-hour-and-35-minute flight from Mauritius, per PETA's detailed incident timeline.
That is a full day and change in a wooden crate in a cargo hold — before getting tossed in the trash.
Number two.
The biohazard truck picked up that dumpster on January 30th.
The monkey was trapped inside the whole weekend.
He escaped on February 2nd when the dumpster was opened at Stericycle — a waste facility in Miami — according to Axios Miami.
He ESCAPED.
In a MIAMI WASTE FACILITY.
That sentence should not exist.
Number three.
BC US had the monkey returned to their facility.
And then they KILLED HIM.
Their explanation, per the incident report obtained by PETA — they euthanized him "out of an abundance of caution" to protect their existing primate colonies from bacteria.
He showed NO visible signs of illness.
Number four.
The USDA issued BC US a CRITICAL citation under the federal Animal Welfare Act.
And per PETA's reporting, BC US had ALREADY received a separate critical citation when TWO other monkeys died after staff left them in a room heated to 104 DEGREES overnight. This was not a one-time mistake.
Number five.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission charged BC US president Mark Bushmitz with a second-degree misdemeanor for the escape of captive wildlife, according to PETA's press release from March 30th.
PETA says this is the FIRST TIME an importer in the animal testing industry has ever been criminally charged for this kind of incident.
Historic.
The penalty?
Up to 60 days in jail.
And/or a fine of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Let's zoom out.
BC US — full name Bioculture US — is affiliated with Bioculture Mauritius, which breeds the macaques overseas.
They fly them to Florida, quarantine them, and sell them to American research labs.
This is a supply chain business.
And in any supply chain business, you COUNT YOUR INVENTORY.
Especially when your inventory is alive, carries zoonotic pathogens, and federal law mandates individual quarantine cages.
Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA's Chief Science Advisor on Primate Experimentation, said — and I want you to hear this — "BC US's failure on every level is a disgrace that led to unimaginable terror and physical suffering for this monkey."
Unimaginable terror.
PETA is now pushing to REVOKE BC US's permit entirely.
Because the question isn't just what happened to this one monkey.
The question is — HOW MANY MONKEYS does BC US process? And how confident are we that every single one is accounted for?
I'm not here to lecture on animal testing today, fellas — that's a genuinely complex debate.
But here is something we can ALL agree on.
If you are handling living creatures — for any purpose — you COUNT THEM.
Basic accountability.
Basic operations.
A warehouse counts boxes. A restaurant counts inventory. You run a morning accountability partnership with BAPL — you show up and you CHECK IN.
The same principle applies at EVERY scale.
When you stop counting — when you assume someone else already did — things fall through the cracks. Sometimes the crack is a biohazard dumpster.
Know your numbers.
Every single time.
Here's the question I want you to sit with today.
Where in YOUR life are you just assuming someone else is counting?
Your finances. Your health metrics. The people in your circle.
Where are you saying "someone's got that covered" — and nobody actually does?
The monkey was right there.
In the crate.
The whole time.
And nobody looked.
Drop it in the comments — what's the wildest "nobody checked" story you've ever seen at work?
Does this story make you ANGRY, make you laugh, or make you laugh AND THEN feel bad about it?
Because I went through all three.
Share this one. Your people need to hear about the dumpster monkey — a sentence I never thought I'd say on this show.
Fellas.
A monkey survived five days in a biohazard dumpster.
Trucked across the state of Florida.
Escaped into a Miami waste facility.
FIVE DAYS.
No food. No water. Exposed to the cold. And he was still ALIVE when that door opened.
That is HARD to wrap your head around.
You have got hot coffee, a working phone, and people in your corner.
You have got EVERYTHING you need to count what matters and make today count.
This is Mornings in the Lab.
Let's go.