The second monkey on the first successful US primate spaceflight was bought from a Miami pet shop for about $50 six weeks before launch. She survived, lived another 25 years, died at 27 as the oldest captive squirrel monkey on record, and people still leave bananas on her grave.

[u/unteachablecourses]

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[u/exkingzog]

This monkey’s gone to heaven.

[u/electricZeel]

its getting harder and harder to get a monkey mailed in a box thesedays here in the US let alone just owning one as a pet