Press releases are made, a press conference is held, and there is much international fanfare. May 08 - The monkey dies from exhaustion. Doctor Safran closes the 1Monkey. May 27 - Doctor Safran applies for grant funding for his new project, 100Monkeys. Laboratory space is built in the Mission District of San Francisco, but immediately abandoned and razed for lack of parking and out of pure spite.
Cost overruns increase, and there are suspicions of wastefulness and graft.
June 13 - The Laboratories are finished. Doctor Safran engages the services of June J. Huntington to acquire the needed monkeys, as the Project calls for 100, yet he has just the one, and it is dead at that. June 22 - The monkeys arrive. Due to a paperwork error, however, the Project ends up with 1,000 each of rhesus, howler, and snow monkeys. The next few days on EBay are interesting indeed.