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Miss Sam
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 flight lasted 8 minutes and 35 seconds, successfully testing the abort mechanisms and subjecting the p...
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Imo
Imo was a female Japanese macaque living on the island of Kōjima, Japan, whose behavior became a foundational case study in cultural transmission among non-human animals. In 1953, primatologists observed her washing sweet potatoes in a river to remove sand before eating them, a technique she spontaneously invented. This novel behavior was subsequently adopted by other members of her troop, demonst...
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