List of individual monkeys

This article is about notable monkeys. For lists of monkey species, see list of Old World monkey species and list of New World monkey species.

This annotated list of individual monkeys includes monkeys who are in some way famous or notable. The list does not include notable apes, or fictional primates.

Monkey actors

Binks - (Capuchin) Played Betsy in the 1995 movie Outbreak. Also appeared in George of the Jungle and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Govi - (Capuchin) Played Sophocles in the 1993-1994 sitcom Monkey Please, Sophocles! that aired in Azerbaijan as a satire of the political climate in the country at the time.^[1]
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.
Crystal - Played in The Hangover Part II, Night at the Museum and Annie's Boobs in Community.
Boo - (Capuchin) Played Ella in the 1988 movie "Monkey Shines".

Monkeys used in experiments

Miss Baker, with her Certificate of Merit from the ASPCA.

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.^[2]
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. In 1977, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, 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 from which scientists were able to successfully derive embryonic stem cells.

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.

Other

Ramu, arrested and kept behind bars in India for 5 years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony. At the age of three, while under the care of a Muslim family, Ramu attacked some children of parents. This sparked communal riots in the Jagannathpur village, ultimately leading to Ramu's arrest.

jack the Signalman

Jack, known as Jack the Signalman .^[3] This baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.
Fred, euthanized in March 2011. Fred had a reputation for stealing food anywhere he could, but when he turned to aggressive, he was caught and controversially euthanized.

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