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Was the Iranian Space Monkey Launch a Hoax?

Feb 1 2013, 6:10pm CST | by

We bet the Ikea monkey never would have tried to pull a fast one like this. Days after Iran claimed to have made history by launching a monkey into space, the Times UK reports that the entire trip...

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Germany Grants Residency To Justin Bieber’s Monkey

Source: Eurasia Review  |   May 19 2013, 12:36am CDT

A tiny capuchin monkey belonging to Justin Bieber won lifetime residency in Germany on Saturday after the singer’s agents said Bieber would not try to recover his confiscated pet. Mally, aged five months, is destined for an unnamed German zoo ...

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"These discoveries suggest that the members of the major primate groups that today include apes and Old World monkeys were sharing the planet millions of years earlier than previously documented"


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Wildlife officers shoot, kill monkey in Clermont Co.

Source: WLWT Cincinnati  |   May 18 2013, 9:58pm CDT

The monkey was first spotted Friday, and sheriff's deputies said they had not gotten any reports of one missing. Officers found the monkey near Neville and shot it, authorities said. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources D ...

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9 hours ago

Rain throws a monkey wrench in NASCAR's All-Star race

Source: Auto Week  |   May 18 2013, 9:30pm CDT

LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC - Kurt Busch was leading the NASCAR All-Star race when rain forced a delay 13 laps into it. Saturday night's Sprint All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway was stopped for rain just 13 laps into its scheduled 90-lap distanc ...

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12 hours ago

Justin Bieber Asked to Pay Fine in Germany for Monkey

Source: Kovideo  |   May 18 2013, 7:16pm CDT

Nearly two months since entering Germany, Justin Bieber has not claimed his monkey or produced the needed paperwork and now has to pay a fine. Justin Bieber’s European tour has been fraught with all sorts of trouble, from starting a ...

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Justin Bieber's Monkey Now Belongs to Germany

Source: New York Magazine  |   May 18 2013, 4:38pm CDT

As you may recall, Justin Bieber was forced to leave his monkey, Mally, in the care of German customs officials in late March, when he tried to bring the pet into the country without the proper paperwork. Bieber was giv ...

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15 hours ago

Monkey on the loose in Clermont County

Source: FOX 19 News Cincinnati  |   May 18 2013, 3:21pm CDT

A monkey is on the loose in Clermont County. The State Game Warden of Neville, Ohio states that he is looking for a loose monkey. It is unclear at this time where the monkey came from. Any sightingsFull Story > Witnesses in southwestern Virginia say ...

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Was the Iranian Space Monkey Launch a Hoax?

Feb 1 2013, 6:10pm CST | by

Iranian Space Monkey | Photo Credits: AFP/Getty Images

We bet the Ikea monkey never would have tried to pull a fast one like this.

Days after Iran claimed to have made history by launching a monkey into space, the Times UK reports that the entire trip may have never taken place.

The newspaper notes that photographs taken of the lucky monkey before his trip differ from photographs of the monkey taken at a post-flight news conference. In the before picture, the monkey has a distinctive red mole above its right eye and a band of light fur around the sides of its head. In the after picture, the mole and the light fur patch have both magically disappeared.

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The paper theorizes that this change indicates that either the monkey died during the trip, and that the Iranian regime was too embarrassed to tell the truth, or that the launch never occurred. "There's been no independent confirmation from outside Iran that the launch did take place, and that the payload contained a monkey, and that the monkey survived," Michael Elleman, an Iranian missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies told the Times UK.

The launch of the rocket was not broadcast live on television, and after the rocket landed, only a few photographs were taken of either the rocket or the monkey, but none of the two together.

 

 

 

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Luigi is the founding Chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
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