The First Animal In Space May Surprise You
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We all know Laika the dog and maybe Ham the chimpanzee but the entire pantheon of animals that have been to space is surprisingly vast. Everything from cats to worms to fish to newts to spiders have been flown in space to test the effect of space and zero gravity on life forms. Here is my best attempt to catalogue all of them.
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/space...
www.astronautix.com/r/r-7.html
usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/w...
www.space.com/laika-space-dog
www.britannica.com/topic/Laika
www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...
www.aps.org/publications/apsn...
history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part...
history.nasa.gov/animals.html
www.huntsville.org/blog/list/...
www.al.com/living/2016/05/mis...
www.calvertjournal.com/articl... -- PIC!
dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsb... -- video
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...
www.businessinsider.com/belka...
airandspace.si.edu/stories/ed... -- PICS!
www.wired.com/2014/10/stray-d... -- PIC of Blackie, but they get the date wrong
airandspace.si.edu/multimedia... -- PIC of Ivan (and right date)
www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys...
www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/...
www.mentalfloss.com/article/5...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/...
www.nature.com/articles/laban...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys...
www.rd.com/list/animals-in-sp...
www.discovermagazine.com/the-...
airandspace.si.edu/collection...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2...
www.space.com/38628-first-int...
www.popularmechanics.com/spac...
www.newscientist.com/article/...
www.esa.int/Science_Explorati...
www.wired.com/story/a-crashed...
www.wired.com/story/a-crashed...
TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 - Space Bat
2:11 - Laika The Dog
4:20 - Flies in Space
5:34 - The Alberts
6:57 - Pet Hug Break
7:11 - Dezik, Tsygan, and Yorick
8:18 - Yorick
8:53 - Patricia, Mike, and Gordo
9:27 - Able and Baker
10:40 - Belka, Strelka, and Ham
12:20 - Ivan's Menagerie
14:59 - Enos the Chimp
15:20 - FĂ©licette the Cat
16:33 - The Fabulous Nematode
18:40 - Tardigrades
20:45 - Sponsor - Hello Fresh - VÄda a technologie
Yes, I have changed the title and thumbnail on this video about 50 times and I know a lot of you don't like that, but this video is absolutely tanking for some reason. I've gotten a few comments that people don't want to watch it because what happens to the animals makes them sad. Maybe that's it? Anyway, apologies.
I was wondering what the hell was going on. I am cool with all the titles and thumbnails anyhow
Great video!
AI thumbnail?
@@manuelvale3996 EXACTLY what I was thinking, that monkey thumbnail it currently is screams AI generated to me for some reason, it is like spotting photoshop, something is just.... off. I didn't click this video for the content, I clicked to see if anyone else noticed or suspected an AI thumbnail.
I first didn't click on the video because I didn't find laika in Space interesting. But the claim "Most astronauts were animals" made me click on it in the end. I would prefer more interesting space-related topics though.
@@Iwitrag Well, human passengers are only increasing the total number of animals flying. But you still have to discount plants and bacteria from the tally somehow.
I can't believe they didn't use cats for these early test flights, everyone knows cats always land on their feet.
Ah, a bit of levity.... Nicely done
I know that's a joke but fun fact, they actually DID study cats in zero g for that specific reason but they did it on the Vomit Comet & that data lead to the design of the gyroscopes used for the ISS. Also the films footage of those experiments is hilarious. If you wanna see cats doing the cat flip in zero g & then clawing the crap out of Airmen's arms & legs it's 100% worth the watch.
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Your mad!
That's exactly why they couldn't. It would give them false positives
I am surprised you didn't mention the three cows launched into orbit, that became known as the herd shot round the world.
Thatâs udderly hilarious.
You're milking this, aren't you?
Eso es la leche!đ
You're right, i haven't herd this one before, and i can't hide my intrigue now.
BOOOOOOOOOO!
The struggle snuggle with Zoey was perfect and much needed â€ïžđ
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While I learn many things from your videos, learning that Laika's trainer took her home the night before the flight just to give her a "last meal" with love and care really sticks with me...
...same. yeah, I had to do "that spontaneous deep breath thing" when he described that part
Iâm a grade 1 teacher at an international school in China, and my students were literally asking me to check which animals had been to space one by one today... love your content. Touches lives around the world in ways you could never imagine. Iâll be using this information to dazzle some inquisitive 6 year olds tomorrow. Thanks for every video.
You can't access CZcams in china
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There's actual audio of Laika as she's in orbit, its of her heartbeat.
đ„șđ Oh God! đ
imagine yuri gagarin asking if they've tested the space suit he's going to use to go to space, and the scientists proudly tell him about the experimental prototype they filled with like a hundred assorted rodents, and how - on *that* basis - they're certain he'll be fine. and he still went through with it.
tbf the abort system was to jump out of the rocket, and the landing plan was also to jump out of the rocket
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ââââ@Cyber Ghost you reminded me of Tom Hanks. He was on Conan and they were talking about movies he likes to do. He said that if it has something to do with a topic he's actually interested in (WW2 or outer space), then there's a greater chance that he'll do it. So Conan's like, "Oh you like space?" Hanks responds with (paraphrasing), "If they wanted to send someone up there just to see if it'd still hurt getting staples in your head, I'd be the first to sign up."
@@TheMunchkinita2509 i dont understand
Iâm still thinking about the Russian farmers. If theyâd gotten there first⊠like if theyâd opened the suit and all of those rodents came spilling out⊠How many years of therapy would you need to get over that? Yikes.
Zoey had this "ohhh shit I guess this is happening" expression in her eyes.đđ
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@@Emira_75 7:02
Haha Zoey is my dogs name!
ive never seen a dog so afraid to be loved LOL
@@pvic6959 RIGHT?! LOL đ đ€Ł đ
There were some other survivors from _Columbia_ -- there was an Australian spider experiment aboard, and some of these (the same ones that launched) were found alive in the debris field.
Press F to pay respect to all those animals. Including Zoey... Poor Zoey.
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All that did was make the video portion of this clip go fullscreen.
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You know what I think is crazy? Most of these were able to get the animals into space but somehow couldn't manage to figure out how to make a parachute work. Insane
Making something go fast is pretty easy.
Getting it to stop... not so much.
@@damenwhelan3236 did they think they could use existing parachute designs used to jump out of airplanes and they'd be fine though? đ€Š Because that was way too many failed parachutes.
@XSemperIdem5
Nope. They used un tested designed on test bed craft to determine if they would work. They did not.
But can't know till you try and try and try
@XSemperIdem5
Test craft are very seldom ever meant for retrieval.
The Russians just kept trying for retrieval so they could claim the achievement if it happened.
Initially. The USSR used a ditch and deploy method.
The cosmonaut ditched the craft and used a traditional parachute to land.
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Your dog seems confused, but is not about to question bonus hugs đ
You should call this channel "Answers with Alice"....
Every video is a rabbit hole đ
Love them!
What a wonderful coincidence. I just started researching Laika last night. I'm gonna make a short comic about her for my art class. The image of her looking at the earth and seeing it as a ball makes my tear up :P
Thank you for including some humor in this one; the list of animals was just as grim as I expected and the humor was much appreciated.
I don't know if I'm emotionally ready to hear about the dog astronauts. It was tough to even watch Guardians 3 knowing Cosmo's story. But damn, that one video of Laika damn well makes me cry every time.
As the story goes, the ground control center for the Laika flight had her heartbeat on the speaker. After a point, when everyone knew she was going to die, they proceeded as normal with the heartbeat on the speaker. Finally, the controllers couldn't take it anymore and turned off the sound telemetry.
Cosmo is a GOOD DOG and no one is going to tell me different
@@Nehmo well shit, now I'm crying.
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But let me guess, you eat animals?
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@@jip5889 True
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Facts
Somewhat appropriate that this video drops on the Monday after Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 was released, which for the first time gives some characterizaton to Cosmo, who appears to be one of the Soviet dogs launched in the 50s or 60s that somehow survived and came to be in The Collectors... er... collection. She wears a CCCP-marked spacesuit (sans helmet and paw coverings), speaks (in Russain-accented English) through a digital translator that apparently just reads her mind... and she's telekinetic.
Don't forget the dinosaurs who were catapulted to space from the explosion when the comet hit. What a tragic story.
*meteorite.
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DonÂŽt forget the space plankton, and space bacteria, even space virus.
â@@Kabup2 SPACE AIDS!
they survived and became reptilians?
I have forgotten those.
"Echo located his way to God." I just spewed coffee đ€Ł
I'm glad Joe finally acknowledges his way more famous and more posh sounding brother at 9:44
It would be worth mentioning that there was a student experiment on board of space shuttle Columbia that involved some worms. The crew studied it for 14 days while on orbit. Even though the shuttle disintegrated during reentry, the worms survived. Those were not the same worms that launched but the next generations of these creatures. In a way, this is some legacy of the crew of Columbia.
Was mentioned in the video
As sad a topic as it is that bit with wee Zoe (the truth and the light ;)) filled me with so much joy. We love ya Joe
Thanks for recognizing the audience needed a break--had to rewatch 7:03 a few times to make it through the video
I find it interesting that they were able to get to space with pretty good consistency, yet consistently made parachutes that didn't work. Seems like a parachute is more simple than a rocket but shows what I know. đ€·
Speed/Velocity.. Mass..
..Look at the size of the parachute needed to slow a 200lb human jumping from a plane going roughly 100mph..
Now scale that up to a muti-ton vehicle that's going about 17,000mph..
@@rogerwilco1777 yeah I see what you're saying. That's heavy + inertia... squared. Yikes. đ€
There were 24 mice on the recent SpaceX CRS-27 mission, I know this because I did experiments on these mice myself. One did die in space, but the remaining 23 made it back to Earth.
What types of experiments did you do with the mice?
What is your field of research?
I'm genuinely interested.
When we have power over over those without choice like animals or children we can either be the hero or the monster.
There was a space burial of the mice, kind of ejecting the body? :)
@@Kabup2 haha, to my knowledge, no, I wish tho
@@T.Lspitz I personally did grip strength testing for our little mousetronauts, but there was about 50-70 people in total on this project. The main field of research for these mice was osteology, looking at bone and muscle mass, body fat composition, walking gate, and more. At least the NASA side was osteology based, I'm actually unsure what the JAXA side was working on specifically, but I believe essentially the same. I currently work in a neurology lab though, we focus on Alzheimer's disease. I was lucky enough to work with another lab on this project, it was my first experience working with animals that have been to space.
As someone who starting a CZcams channel, the last few months have been really nice as I get to see a little bit more of the actual side of your Dallas home every once in awhile. I live in the Oklahoma City area and I to having similar kitchen and spare room getting set up for video making. Nice to know you're just a regular everyday dude like the rest of us, love seeing you give your dog all the love as well.
It is definitely hard to find space to film. đ
Just speculating here, but I think the monkey's were all named Albert after the popular canned tobacco, Prince Albert. I'm assuming they were making a bit of an elaborate pun based around the capsule's being "cans"
ok but now i feel the need to travel around visiting and paying my respects to all these monuments/ burial sites!
That "one nice night before send-off"... I've had to put 2 dogs I've owned to sleep and did the same thing.
I live in Huntsville and I visit her grave often, a lot of people donât notice it but space animals are very important to me so I make sure to pay my respects to miss baker
FĂ©licette: the only house trained animal astronaut.
Fantastic topic and hilarious too! I think your dog is going to need puppy therapy after shooting those scenes!
Thank you Joe for; once again, helping me to learn something new today. You've been quite good at that over the years. đ§đ
Felicette is the most upsetting in my opinion. She remained calm (which is incredible considering what was hapening) and she survived. The fact that they chose to euthanise her to run tests afterwards just hurts. The USSR didn't even euthanise any of their animals that survived.
Agreed. We really should name some of our space infrastructure after these, and though I'm sure Laika Ham and Albert would get priority, Felicette really needs to be near the top of the namesake list.
The name Albert goes to a reference of Prince Albert in a Can. NASA does have a sense of humor
Just watch like an hour of your old vids, and there's a new one! Thanks Joe đ
Thereâs a graphic novel about Laika from an author named Nick Abadzis that I read a few years ago. The story told in its pages was so sad that I was crying while reading the book in public and I had to hug my chihuahuas even harder for days afterwardsâŠ
I absolutely read that. Thought about it when I was doing the research.
Sometimes dying is a better faith than being tortured for many more days, so in some sense they were probably the lucky ones to have a "quick" death.
@@Reth_Hard Although true, that doesnât make the story any less sad, at least in my opinion
@@rachel_sj
Yeah I'm trying really hard to find something positive here! đ
There is also the fact that it was only a few animals compared to the pharmaceutical industry that has been killing like hundreds of them every day for many decades...
I saw Miss Baker at the Alabama (later US) Space and Rocket Center when I first visited there around 1981 or 1982. It was one of the things that made me want to go to Space Camp, which happened in 1984, only the 3rd year of Space Camp.
Ugh. You werenât wrong⊠Iâm only on on Lika at 4:06 and this is hard!!!! So sad. I see the benefits her life provided but at a huge cost. Iâm still going to try to get through this! â€
6:55 I felt that. "I-I love youuuu, I would never let anything happen to you. I love you so much." â€đ
Love the video Joe. Thanks for bringing attention to all of the brave animal astronauts. Always appreciate the laughs as well â€
I like the set Joe. The old one was iconic but frankly a bit "early days". Love the blue, the typewriter and the pictures. And Starships tend to tie rooms together well :) Fits the aerospace side the channel often has.
The release of this video is personally interesting as I just went to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, which is one of the most amazing museums I've ever been to (though they REALLY SUCK at self-promotion, not mentioning how rare the soviet artifacts in thier museum are). With the Soviet's jumping out of the early capsules, apparently, they lied for decades about Yuri Gargarin doing so, due to rules around recording records at the time.
I *_love_* the _Cosmosphere,_ but don't get to see it often enough. That's because I live near Seattle, where at least we have the _Boeing Museum of Flight_ to compensate.
Your channel is one of my favourites. Thank you for the content.
Thank you for paying respect to all the critters with their truth...and with your usual combination of lighten-the-mood and genuine-feeling :) (love the current color/fade treatment on the film...I confess, I treat a lot of my video similarly :D I grew up in the 70s and 4 color separation flavoured color grading choices make me happy!) (thoroughly enjoying all the new set-up & technique playing ya'll are doing! AND OMG THANK YOU FOR KEEPING TANGENT CAM [with The Correct No I Will Not Be Taking Questions FONT lololol] I have an inordinate love for Tangent Cam & all its cousins :D)
"Alas, poor Yorick..." Actually, I didn't know of him, Horatio. I knew of Laika, Ham the chimp, and two other dogs the Soviets launched (but not their names.) So thanks, Joe. I had no idea the roster was so extensive.
I appreciate every living being that made the ultimate sacrifice. It is thanks to these lives that we not only are inspired, but we are given hope that someday us, the inhabitants of Earth may not have to face Extinction but instead become universal travelers learning and becoming more enlightened than we ever could have possibly imagined from the fruit fly, to the astronaut, we citizens of Earth salute you
Youâre bad man
Utilatiarism I see? Im not with you, our species using innocent lifes for experimenting its one reason why we maybe should go extinct
You think them critters made that choice, lol?
@@kronikkronolov9793 Im surprised, I thought most people was going to comment like the original comment, glad that it wasnt like that
99.999999% of citizens of Earth are only saluting stuff to either keep themselves alive or for an ass-kiss promotion, very few are saluting creatures shot up into space. Hell, I really don`t want homo-sapiens to become universal travellers in our current state. In fact if we do go extinct, it might be a blessing for the universe.
Awesome job, Joe! Thanks!
When you mentioned the Drosophila I was also expecting you mentioned they were one of the first four organisms to have their genome sequenced.
Great video as always, and great choice of topic!
**Presses F repeatedly for all the space animals.**
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Hi Joe, big fan :) and congrats on the flashy new studio
Joe i have been here for years, and i still think you are the funniest youtube!
Its impressive how animals got free ticket to space without any qualifications
Yeah.. they were most definitely chosen for their intellect and integrity. Frfr
Great job with the lighting. Looks much better now. Hopefully it was an easy solution.
I watch, and love all of your videos, but I have to say, this is amongst the best ever. Nice work Joe. đ
Love you Joe! Great video as always! You and your team are wonderful people!
We need to take up a donation to buy Joe a segue cam. That was a classic.
Just an FYI...the picture you showed of "Patricia and Mike" were not 2 crab eating macaques. One was a crab eating macaque but the one on the right is actually a squirrel monkey (rather than two crab eating macaques)!đ
@@kingkill5169 oh my...is this somehow a touchy subject for you? How strange that you would get upset over something so trivial, _bud_
(I spend more than enough time outside as I am an animal behaviorist/ethologist who works with primates which was why I was aware of what species was pictured and which is also why you have no need to worry about my time spent outdoors since i often spend weeks at a time "outside"! But thanks for your concern!)
Weâll spotted. Nice to have an expert weigh in.
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@@kingkill5169 4 sentences is too difficult for you to read? Lol
Without a doubt, one of your BEST shows; extremely interesting! Thanks for your work.
Love the picture of Ham smiling with the newspaper!
A former NASA Shuttle Console Operator at Ground Control and I decided that Space Bat needed a name. We called him Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson. A graphic artist friend of ours took the pic of Bat in a spacesuit and gave him a nametag.
My only other connection to animals in space is that I was born at almost the same time as Laika was being launched aboard Sputnik II. I've had what is literally a life-long connection to that dog ever since. --Dan
I love the Bat Masterson story! Good for you guys! I was a space nut starting as a child (I was 9 when we got to the moon) & I also wondered a lot about the various ground crew, tech, science, etc folks. You guys must have so many cool stories! And speaking of young folk in the space program (was I?), I bet you've seen the "NASA Johnson Style" video, a spoof of "Gangnam Style." If you haven't, you MUST. It was done by various brilliant young interns (how they came up with the spare time, I cannot imagine!), & it makes my week every time I watch it. Oh, the NASA Johnson Style vid: czcams.com/video/2Sar5WT76kE/video.html
Damn. I never knew American parachutes were so deadly. Guess we know for sure what happen to DB Copper...spat.
Damn that straight up call-out at the end really got me by surprise lmao, and you're right, even those nematodes achieved a feat none of us have done
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!
I think the crappiest thing I did to my sister was tell her about all the dead space animals.
Hey, I recently told my MIL (who I love) about how sloths descend from trees about once a week to poop and if they fall on the way back up they often die. đ Sheâs into sloths.
I also told my brother about how the original voice actress for Ducky in the Land Before Time movies and Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven was brutally murdered by her father before it was released in theaters and the song about love persisting after death was dedicated in her memory. đ
The burden of knowledge is a heavy one at times.
In the 1980s, we managed to catch a giant horsefly at the beach on a weekend we were sending up Estes rockets. I had built a rocket modeled after the space shuttle, which had a payload compartment in the capsule. We named the ship "SKY-FLY" and put our giant horsefly in the capsule. We launched the insect and it survived with no problems. We launched it again over six to eight times, and it still survived. We honored it by letting it go at the end. It flew off unperturbed.
Itâs feels like itâs been too long since I watched a Joe video and this was a good one but at the end I realized that I really enjoy the way Joe ends his videos and I think I always have a lil anxiety cuz Iâm afraid itâs gonna be different and then when he ends it with âI love you guysâ itâs strangely satisfying and the universe is perfect and safe
You are right.
It is interesting to tell their story.
I love the Maximillian statue in the background Joe. One of my favorite movies from when I was a kid.
My Rat Terrier looks a lot like Laika. I will NOT be sending her to space, but that's okay because she thinks sticking her head out of a car window is much more exciting!
Ah yes, the old "what if we made them see god for a minute?" idea we all had at some point
Thank you for putting the clip of Philomena Cunk in there! She's brilliant đ
Thanks for taking on some of the 'say what?' subjects. That keeps me coming back
Was that Tom Scott? đ What a great video! I'm in the "no animal testing" camp because Dad wouldn't even let us keep bugs in the popular "bug catchers" of the 1960s. (No shade if you make different choices though!)
Definitely Tom Scott. đ€Ł
Rule 1 of space travel: NO FUCKIN âALBERTSâ
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loved when you cut to hugging your doggo
Man, 3 thumbnail changes in one day? Youâve made your point. Iâll watch lol
Omg I can't believe how much this affected me! I've just given my Labrador a hug too
19:50 god I love Joeâs sense of humor.
Thank you Joe!
I don't know why but if they send dogs to space especially if they don't come back living I could cry for hours. Maybe because I love dogs so much (having one very cute myself). Layka was such a sweet little puppy. And I could not think about what she went through during her ride. And I know how much you love your dog. I am certain that you totally understand. đ„°
One of the funniest video so far. Good job Joe!
Loved this video!đ
Thanks
11:28 Ooh Chimpanzee that, Money News!
My favorite thumbnail was the cat one. The monkey one second, and the dog one the third. I was waiting to see if there was a forth, but after a few hours it looks like thatâs it.
12:28 I genuinely LOLed at Joe's reaction to the name Chernushka. See, while the direct translation is, indeed, "Blackie" (which sounds very... questionable), the actual meaning of it is much closer to Cinderella than... that. The implication is "Sooty", not whatever he pictured in his head xD
Awwwwww poooor little bat you got me choked up thanks Joe didnât think Iâd start the day sobbing over a bat
Thank you Joe.
Love the Tom Scott footage.
Thanks for this, it's great.
Oh yes I needed a video to watch thank you
LOL, you and your pug! Nice NEEDED comic relief, TY.
Why didnât I just skip this video and wait for another day ffs đ„ș Iâm way too emotional for this but Iâm not going to stop because itâs still such quality content and I still want to know what the other ones are (just finished the Laika section and the trainer taking her home just killed me đą)
Thank you though Joe - fantastic vid as always
the columbia nematodes make me so happy for some reason. even in such a horrible situation, something survived it all.
also, i want to know what would happen to a budgie in space. could a bird fly in the ISS?
also, youâve gotta talk about the ejection seat bears sometimes
I am not so sure one could say that Ham the chimp went on to live a long, happy life after his flight into space.
Yes, he was sent to live in a zoo however he lived in a cage completely alone for 17 freaking years...which is about the most cruel thing one could subject a chimpanzee to due to how very social and intelligent they are. (Captive primates will often choose the company of a conspecific over food!). After being confined all alone for 17 years he was transferred to another facility where he was allowed to interact with other chimps...where he only lived for 5 years and died at the young age of 26. So he definitely did not live a long life since in captivity chimpanzees can live to approximately 40 or 50 years (median age in captivity is 32 for males, 39 for females, oldest age is 72 in captivity and 63 in the wild).đ
Great video Joe! Wasn't aware so many animals were sent to space