• the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?
• the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman?
• the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a White-headed Capuchin?
• in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?
• the world's first looping roller coasters were tested with eggs, flowers, glasses of water, and even a monkey before human riders were allowed?

Facts on topics related to Monkey

Primate

• lemurs (pictured) are primates that evolved and diversified on the island of Madagascar after arriving there at least 56 million years ago on a raft of vegetation?
• Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar?
• a subspecies of Black Lemur (pictured) is the only primate other than humans to have blue eyes?
• in his 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Linus Pauling explains primates' inability to synthesize vitamin C as a result of evolution?
• the Gray Mouse Lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)?
• the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?

Hominidae

• the Middle Awash is a site along the Awash River of Ethiopia in which some of the most famous extinct hominids have been discovered?

New World monkey

• the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name the recently discovered type of New World monkey: the GoldenPalace.com Monkey?
• the Black-headed Spider Monkey (pictured), a New World monkey, is estimated to have declined by more than 80% over the past 45 years due to human encroachment on its habitat?