![]() ![]() Without a working water system and the shade provided by trees, the animals could perish in the hot sun. Maria’s 155-mile-per-hour winds leveled a field station, stripped trees of their leaves and destroyed feeding corrals and rainwater collection systems. But the storm’s aftermath has left the island’s more than 1,500 rhesus macaques-including some used for autism research-in jeopardy. Many of the monkeys living on Cayo Santiago, an island off Puerto Rico, are likely to have survived Hurricane Maria, which pummeled the island on 20 September. ![]()
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