List of individual monkeys

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 as "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

• Loon, a drill at the San Diego Zoo who learned to participate in the treatment of his diabetes.

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. 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.

See also

• List of fictional monkeys
• List of apes

References