Iran's Space Monkey And 29 Other Primates In Places They Shouldn't Be

29 Monkeys In Strange Situations

Iran's state television announced on Monday that Tehran had successfully launched (and retrieved "intact") a monkey into space.

This throws up all sorts of highly contentious issues, the most obvious being: Is space the right place for a monkey?

In honour of this as-yet-unnamed primate, the Huffington Post UK scoured its picture archives for other monkeys in situations that they probably shouldn't be...