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Hurricane Maria: monkeys hold on, horses endure

September 29, 2017 by Merritt Clifton

“Oh my goodness, how could anything have survived this?”          CAYO SANTIAGO,  Puerto Rico––Hurricane Irma mostly missed the renowned Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony,  on an island just east of the Puerto Rican mainland,  but Hurricane Maria hit it head-on,  at full Category 5 strength. The thousand-odd macaques on Cayo Santiago are ninth generation descendants from […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal organizations, Birds, Caribbean, Chimps & other primates, Disasters, Educational use, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Racing, Research & testing, Science, Show, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Clarence R. Carpenter, Ed Yong, Elizabeth Redden, Frank Angst, James Higham, Linda Horn, Mark Samuel, Merritt Clifton, Shelley Gagnon-Blodgett

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