Puerto Rico Moves Forward: Macaque Monkeys Adapt After Hurricane Maria

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Over 1,800 rhesus macaques, imported from Asia in the 1930s, live on Puerto Rico's tiny island of Cayo Santiago. Most of the monkeys survived Hurricane Maria, but researchers wonder if their behavior and cognition changed after the storm.

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