List of monkeys
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This list includes individual non-human primates (capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys, Rhesus Macaques, and marmosets) who are in some way famous or notable.
Note: This list does not include fictional monkeys, nor Apes, which are not monkeys.
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[edit] Monkey actors
- Binks - (Capuchin) played Betsy in the 1995 movie Outbreak. Also appeared in George of the Jungle and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Katie - (White-headed Capuchin) played Marcel in Friends and Los Angeles Angels' mascot "Rally Monkey."
- Finster — played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger in the movie Monkey Trouble'
[edit] Monkeys used in experiments
- Able - (Rhesus Macaque) and Baker - (Peruvian Squirrel Monkey), both female, the first monkeys sent into space to survive the experience. They were launched on 28 May 1959 in the nose cone of a Jupiter AM-18 missile as a test of NASA's launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and procedures for retrieving astronauts after splashdown. Able died a few months after the mission, but Baker lived another 25 years.
- Britches - removed from his mother at birth, Britches was left alone with his eyes sewn shut as part of a study into blindness. He was rescued by the Animal Liberation Front, which publicized the condition he was found in, and the experiment was shut down.
- Gordo (also known as Old Reliable) - He was launched in the US Jupiter AM-13 Rocket in 1958, but was lost after a technical failure at the end of the mission.
- Hellion - (Capuchin) trained by Mary Joan Willard to assist disabled people, was the first trainee to be placed. Starting in 1977, Hellion is still helping Robert Foster (a quadriplegic) with chores and general assistance.
- Miss Sam - (Rhesus Macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960
- Semos - a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who supplied the skin cells that for the first time, scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.
[edit] Working monkeys
- Jack - Baboon (species not recorded). South African. During the late 19th century, worked as an ox-driver, disabled person's assistant, janitor, guard, and train signal operator and bodyguard and lived in the black house for a week. According to the account, skeptical railroad authorities tested and approved Jack's signaling skills, and he thereafter received an official employment number and a monthly stipend. Historical exhibits on Jack are at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown and the Uitenhage railroad station.
[edit] Zoo monkeys
- Pipsqueak - (Marmoset) urinated on Johnny Carson. Brought by Joan Embery of the San Francisco Zoo to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, 2 November 1979
- Repe - the alpha male in the baboon community of Korkeasaari Zoo, Helsinki
[edit] Other monkeys
- An unidentified monkey may have been hanged in Hartlepool during the Napoleonic wars after it had washed ashore from a shipwrecked French warship. It is unclear if the people of Hartlepool knew that it was a monkey or stranger yet thought he was a Frenchman. The story of this incident became notorious in the region such that Hartlepool is now identified by it and called the Monkey Hangers: the mascot of Hartlepool Football Club is H'Angus the Monkey.
