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.

Related Topics