if you could take a animal with you to space what would you take ?

Question: if you could take a animal with you to space what would you take ?
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Asked by jancis to Rochelle, Julia, Jon F, Beth, Adrian on 18 Jan 2016. This question was also asked by mala1212.
- Rochelle Velho answered on 18 Jan 2016:
  
  Probably some fruit flies.
  
  Scientists can learn a lot about what happens to the human body in space by studying fruit flies. We share a lot more in common with fruit flies, and its easy to study processes like aging using them as a model.
  
  NASA even has a fruit fly lab, see
  
  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/fruit_fly_lab01

Question: if you could take a animal with you to space what would you take ?