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Loon
Loon was a male drill kept at the San Diego Zoo. Born at the Philadelphia Zoo in 1979 and transferred to San Diego in 1982, he developed diabetes and was trained through operant conditioning to present his arm for regular blood sampling and insulin injections. Preserved tissue from Loon was later involved in research producing induced pluripotent stem cells from an endangered primate, linking his...
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Albert II
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, the widely recognized boundary of space, following the earlier suborbital flight of Albert I, who...
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