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Bloons TD 6 is a strategy game where players defend against waves of balloons using diverse monkey towers. Its notable depth comes from intricate upgrade paths and challenging maps designed for strategic thinking. The game appeals to fans of puzzle games and tower defense enthusiasts seeking a rewar...

Miss Baker was a Peruvian squirrel monkey who became one of the first two primates to successfully survive a trip to space. On May 28, 1959, she and a rhesus macaque named Able were launched by the United States aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket on a suborbital flight reaching an altitude of 360 miles....

Hua Hua is a female crab-eating macaque born in China in 2017, recognized as one of the first live primate clones created through somatic cell nuclear transfer. She was born alongside her clone sibling, Zhong Zhong, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The successful cloning of Hua Hua demonstrated t...

Zhong Zhong is a crab-eating macaque born in China in 2017, notable for being one of the first primates successfully cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer. The procedure was conducted by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, utilizing fetal monkey fibroblasts to create the clone. Alon...

Albert II was a rhesus macaque monkey who became the first primate to reach outer space on June 14, 1949. Launched by the United States aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Albert II reached an altitude of approximately 134 kilometers. This flight crossed the Kármán line...

Able was a rhesus macaque born at the Ralph Mitchell Zoo in Kansas who became one of the first primates to survive a spaceflight. On May 28, 1959, Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker were launched into suborbital space aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket by the United States. The successful recove...

Corporal Jackie was a chacma baboon who served as a military mascot with South African forces during World War I, attached to the 3rd Transvaal Regiment. Found by Albert Marr on his family farm, Jackie accompanied the regiment to the Western Front and participated in trench life. He was wounded in b...

Tetra is a rhesus macaque born in 1999 at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, recognized as the first cloned primate. Unlike previous mammalian clones created using somatic cell nuclear transfer, Tetra was produced through a method called embryo splitting, also known as artificial twinning....

Britches was a stump-tailed macaque monkey used in sensory deprivation experiments at the University of California, Riverside. In April 1985, the Animal Liberation Front removed Britches and approximately 700 other animals from the facility. At the time of the raid, Britches had his eyelids surgical...

Darwin is a Japanese macaque (snow monkey) who gained international attention in December 2012 after being found wearing a winter coat and diaper in a Toronto IKEA store. The incident earned him the nickname "Ikea Monkey" and made him a viral sensation on social media. Darwin had been kept as a pet,...

Retro is a rhesus macaque monkey born in July 2020 who was announced by Chinese researchers in early 2024 as the first healthy cloned rhesus macaque to survive to adulthood. Retro was created using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same technique used to clone Dolly the sheep. The research t...

Yorick, also referred to as Albert VI, was a rhesus monkey who participated in an Aerobee rocket flight on September 20, 1951, launched from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The flight carried Yorick and 11 mice to an altitude of approximately 45 miles (72 kilometers), reaching the edge of spa...

Hie Shrine is a Shinto religious site located in the Akasaka district of Tokyo, Japan. Originally established as the protective guardian shrine for nearby Edo Castle, it is dedicated to Oyamakui-no-kami, a deity historically associated with Mount Hiei. The shrine's architecture is notable for its la...

Monty the Monkey is a wooden marionette character created by the Hogarth Puppets, a British puppet theater company founded by Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth. The Hogarth Puppets performed on BBC television beginning in the 1930s, participating in some of the earliest television puppet broadcasts in Bri...

Zhakonya was a Soviet rhesus macaque used in scientific research aboard the Bion 9 satellite, launched in September 1989. Alongside another monkey named Zabiyaka, Zhakonya spent 13 days and 17 hours in low Earth orbit, setting a spaceflight endurance record for primates at the time. The mission was...

Zabiyaka was a rhesus macaque monkey used by the Soviet space program for biological research. On September 15, 1989, Zabiyaka flew aboard the Bion 9 satellite, also known as Kosmos 2044, alongside another monkey named Zhakonya. The primary mission was to study the physiological effects of prolonged...

Semos was a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque residing at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. In 2007, scientists led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov successfully utilized Semos's skin cells to create cloned embryonic stem cells. This marked the first time primate embryonic stem cells were extracted...

Gordo, also known as Old Reliable, was a squirrel monkey used by the United States in spaceflight research. He was launched into space aboard the Jupiter AM-13 rocket on December 13, 1958. Although telemetry data indicated that Gordo survived the flight and experienced weightlessness, the spacecraft...

Crystal is a female tufted capuchin monkey and animal actor born in 1994. She is best recognized for her roles in Hollywood productions, notably playing Dexter in the Night at the Museum film franchise and Dr. Rizzo in the television series Animal Practice. Throughout her career, Crystal has also ap...

Juan was a tufted capuchin launched by Argentina on 23 December 1969, reaching about 82 km on a suborbital flight and returning alive.

Miss Sam was a female rhesus macaque used by NASA for a suborbital test flight during the early stages of the American space program. On January 21, 1960, she was launched aboard the Little Joe 1B rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, to evaluate the Mercury spacecraft's launch escape system. The fl...

Jacco Macacco was a fighting monkey exhibited at the Westminster Pit in London during the early 1820s. Billed as a baboon or ape, he was famously pitted against dogs in brutal public spectacles that were highly popular in the city at the time. His eventual death following a match became a notable ev...

Krosh was a rhesus macaque used by the Soviet and Russian space programs for orbital flight research. He flew aboard the Bion 10 satellite, launched in December 1992 and returning to Earth in January 1993. Following the mission, scientists studied the physiological effects of prolonged weightlessnes...

Abrek was a rhesus macaque utilized by the Soviet space program for orbital research. He flew as a primary payload aboard Kosmos 1514, also designated as the Bion 6 mission, which launched in December 1983. This mission marked the Soviet Union's first successful orbital flight using primates, aiming...

Bion was a Soviet rhesus macaque who flew aboard the Kosmos 1514 satellite as part of the Bion 6 mission in 1983. Alongside another macaque named Abrek, Bion was launched into space to study physiological changes during spaceflight. The mission marked the beginning of the Soviet Union's Bion satelli...

Dryoma was a Soviet rhesus macaque used for scientific research during the Bion 8 mission, which launched on the Kosmos 1887 satellite in 1987. The mission was designed to study the effects of spaceflight on biological organisms, focusing on radiation and microgravity. Following his successful recov...

Martine was a pig-tailed macaque used by the French space agency for a suborbital spaceflight in 1967. She was launched aboard a Vesta rocket from the Hammaguir test range in Algeria, reaching an altitude of approximately 243 kilometers before successfully returning to Earth. The mission gathered ph...

Patricia was a cynomolgus monkey used by the United States in early aerospace medical research. On May 21, 1952, she and a macaque named Mike were launched aboard an Aerobee rocket from Holloman Air Force Base. The suborbital biomedical test flight reached an altitude of roughly 36 miles to study th...

Lapik was a Russian rhesus macaque used in the Bion 11 biological research mission, which flew from December 24, 1996, to January 7, 1997. He flew alongside another macaque named Multik to study the physiological effects of microgravity on primates during a two-week orbital flight. This mission was...