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Miss Baker awaits launch. Jupiter AM-18 stands ready for its 2:39 am launch at Cape Canaveral launch complex 26B.. Miss Baker wore a helmet lined with rubber and chamois leather plus a jacket for launch, in addition to a respiration meter affixed to her nose with model cement, and she was fitted into a snug capsule of shoebox size, 9¾ × 12½ × 6¾ inches (24.8 × 31.8 × 17.1 cm) insulated ...
Protopithecus is an extinct genus of large New World monkey that lived during the Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in the Toca da Boa Vista cave of Brazil, as well as other locales in the country. [1] Fossils of another large, but less robust ateline monkey, Caipora, were also discovered in Toca da Boa Vista. [2]
The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species—lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World ...
In 2014, 26 animals escaped from an Alpha Genesis enclosure (but did not leave the facility), prompting a fine of over $12,000 from the Department of Agriculture. [4] In 2015, an inspection report wrote that one cynomologus macaque monkey's cage had been closed with a clip instead of a lock. [3]
A squirrel monkey named Miss Baker and a rhesus macaque named Able become the first two animals to be launched into space by the United States and safely return. Other monkeys and apes follow them before humans go to space. [83] 70 "Mafia"
More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina earlier this month, prompting warnings for nearby residents to secure their doors and windows. Thirty-nine of the fugitive ...
Dian Fossey (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1]
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