Miss Baker the monkeynaut was a celebrity during her years at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. She was brought to Huntsville ...

Albert (I through V) The first living beings shot into space were fruit flies, in 1947. A year later, NASA put a male rhesus monkey, Albert, into a V-2 rocket. Albert died, possibly suffocating ...

according to a brief history of animals in space on the agency’s website. For example, a rhesus monkey named “Miss Sam” was ...

In 1953 a police officer found evidence of a "Monkey from Mars" along a Georgia highway. But was this proof of E.T.s or just monkey business?

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human growth hormone physiology, no developmental survey of serum concentrations of the growth hormone dependent somatomedin, insulin-like ...

Captive rhesus macaques are not naturally aggressive, but poor husbandry and handling practices can trigger their aggression toward conspecifics and toward the human handler. The myth of the ...

A training technique is described for ensuring the active cooperation of adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) during in-homecage venipuncture. Five single-housed and 10 pair-housed males ...

We gave 125 I-tyrosylated-C-peptide (I-CP) to 6 pregnant Rhesus monkeys by bolus followed by constant infusion. This resulted in a steady state in the maternal circulation of immunoprecipitable ...