List of historical monkeys
This is a list of historical
monkeys (that is, individual monkeys of historical significance).
- Able (a Rhesus Macaque) and Baker (a squirrel monkey), the first animals sent into space by the US to survive the experience. They were launched in May 1959 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.
- Katie (a capuchin monkey) - performing monkey, played Marcel in Friends and Anaheim Angels' mascot "Rally Monkey".
- 'H'angus the Monkey' (real name unknown) (species unknown), was a monkey hanged by the people of Hartlepool during the Napoleonic wars after it had washed ashore from a shipwrecked French warship. It is unclear if they knew that it was monkey or were merely confused as to what Frenchmen looked like. In 2002 Stuart Drummond a professional H'angus impersonator was elected mayor of Hartlepool.
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