List of individual monkeys

This article is about notable monkeys. For lists of monkey species, see list of Old World monkey species and list of New World monkey species.

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

• Binx – (white-headed capuchin) appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, George of the Jungle, and Bruce Almighty.
• 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]
• Finster – (brown capuchin) played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger, in the 1994 film Monkey Trouble.
• Crystal – (brown capuchin) played in The Hangover Part II, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and as "Annie's Boobs" in Community.
• Boo – (brown capuchin) played Ella in the 1988 movie Monkey Shines.
• Katie – (white-headed capuchin) one of two monkeys to play Marcel, Ross Geller's pet monkey in season 1 of the 1994-2004 sitcom Friends.^[2] Appeared in Sam & Cat, 30 Rock, and The Loop (American TV series).
• Jack Cruz – (capuchin) played as Jack in the 2017 black-and-white short film What Did Jack Do? written and directed by David Lynch.

Monkeys used in experiments

 

Miss Baker, with her Certificate of Merit from the ASPCA

• Able (rhesus macaque) and Miss 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. Miss Able died a few days after the mission, but Miss Baker lived another 25 years.^[3]
• Albert I – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal launched on a rocket (a June 18, 1948 V-2 flight), although it did not reach space.
• Albert II – (rhesus monkey) the first primate and first mammal in space, June 14, 1949. Died upon hitting the ground due to a parachute failure
• ANDi – (rhesus monkey) the first genetic modified rhesus monkey, born at the Oregon Health & Science University
• Britches – (stump-tailed macaque) 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") – (squirrel monkey) 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 1979, Hellion started assisting a quadriplegic, Robert Foster, with chores and general assistance.^[4]
• Miss Sam – (rhesus macaque) sent into space under the Little Joe program in 1960.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• Tetra – a rhesus macaque at the Oregon National Primate Research Center who was the first cloned primate, created through splitting.^[7]

Other

• Corporal Jackie, a baboon of the South African army
• Darwin, a Japanese macaque who earned notoriety as the "Ikea Monkey"
• Fred, euthanized in March 2011. Fred had a reputation for stealing food anywhere he could, but when he turned too aggressive, he was caught and controversially euthanized.
• Jacco Macacco, was a fighting ape or monkey who was exhibited in monkey-baiting matches at the Westminster Pit in London in the early 1820s.
• Jocko Flocko, unofficial 'codriver' for Tim Flock who was in the car when he won a race at Hickory Motor Speedway in 1953. He 'retired' two weeks later at Raleigh Speedway after being struck by a pebble and attacking Flock.

 

Jack the Signalman

• Jack, known as Jack the Signalman [1].^[8] This baboon was reputed to have become an expert at working the railroad signals for the Cape Government Railway.
• Loon, lived at the San Diego Zoo and was trained to accept blood draws and insulin injections to treat his diabetes.
• Maggie the Monkey, a crab-eating macaque who predicted the results of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
• 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 family, Ramu attacked some children. This sparked communal riots in the Jagannathpur village, ultimately leading to Ramu's arrest.
• Twelves (December 12, 2012 – March 20, 2018) was a pet monkey of Brazilian singer Latino.^[9]

See also

• List of fictional primates
• List of individual apes
• Monkeys and apes in space

References

1. Bugg, James (2011). "No Business Like Monkey Show Business". York Vision. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
2. Kusiak, Lindsay (2022). "'Friends': Is Marcel the Monkey Still Alive?". Showbiz Cheat Sheet. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
3. Florida Today article about Miss Able and Miss Baker^{[dead link]}
4. Tenbroeck, Craig. "Hotshot monkeys* in science - CNN.com". cnn.com. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
5. "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
6. Cyranoski, David (2007-11-14). "Cloned monkey stem cells produced". Nature News. doi:10.1038/news.2007.245.
7. White-house, David (14 January 2000). "Scientists 'clone' monkey". BBC News.
8. "Stranger Than Fiction: Jack the Signalman". knoxvilledailysun.com. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
9. "Latino é criticado por foto com macaco de estimação fumando". VEJA (in Portuguese). 18 April 2016. from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2023.