Lapik vs Tetra

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 the final time monkeys were launched by the Soviet or Russian space programs. Following their return...

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. This process involved dividing a developing embryo to create genetically identical offspring, makin...