In the 1950s, a famous experiment of rhesus monkeys reared with terry-cloth and wire-mesh "surrogate mothers" provided evidence that the development of emotional ties between infant and mother does not depend on hunger satisfaction.
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The name "Rhesus" is reminiscent of the minor character of Iliad, the mythical Thracian king Rhesus. However, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Audebert, who named the species, said that "it doesn't mean anything". Colloquially, rhesus monkeys are also called "rhesus monkeys."
A new analysis of the rhesus monkey genome, conducted by an international consortium of more than 170 scientists, also shows that humans and macaque monkeys share about 93% of their DNA.
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