[BC] Suicidal Space "Monkeys"

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Note: Followup to this will be in the Alternate Frequency....

I would love to see a citation on this story.  I don't think any of
the monkey flights were long enough for anything to starve, even a
mouse (which needs to eat all the time).  Even the first maned
flights were very short, and thought food was TESTED, it wasn't
needed.   Primates can live weeks to a month without food as long as
they have water.

Where can I read about suicidal space primates?  An Internet link?  A
book?  Please let me know.

On May 5, 2008, at 7:23 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

>Message: 6
>Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:23:08 -0700
>From: "patrick roberts" <radiowavesokc at gmail.com>
>
>Corporate America Radio suits remind me of the monkey they sent to
>space early in the space program.  The darn thing was smart enought
>to figure out how to cheet the food dispenser into giving it more
>food early in the flight.  The bad news is the monkey starved to
>death because it ate itself though the supply early and had nothing
>for the latter part of the flight.
>
>PR