While there aren't any rhesus macaques on Mars, these monkeys were, ironically, making space flights at the time - only on rockets, not saucers. NASA first launched a male rhesus macaque ...

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 ...

It was all harmless fun at first for Baker, a squirrel monkey, and her space travel companion, Able, a rhesus monkey, in the run-up to their 16-minute space flight on May 28, 1959. But the trip ...

Miss Baker took her 16-minute flight in a Huntsville-built Jupiter rocket that helped researchers learn more about the potential for human space flight. A rhesus monkey named Able flew with her.

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

After an adequate period of familiarization, they become used to having their cage space periodically reduced by about 75 ... Removal from home cage. Laboratory rhesus monkeys quickly learn to enter ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

The breaking story captured immediate attention: 43 rhesus monkeys had escaped from a massive breeding and research center in Yemassee. As we quickly covered the unfolding drama last November ...

"Space utilization by captive rhesus macaques ... "Effects of environmental enrichment on the social behavior of pair-housed juvenile specific pathogen free (SPF) rhesus monkeys." American Journal of ...

Trial 1: The experiment relies on one of the most predictable traits of rhesus monkeys: their tendency to steal food at every opportunity. Santos discovered this a few years ago when she and her ...