What I Learned on Monkey Island

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Monkey Island is, perhaps unsurprisingly, home to thousands of monkeys. And when a major hurricane blew directly across the island, the researchers who study those monkeys thought that they were going to return to a scene of mass tragedy. But only two monkeys died during the storm. It wasn’t until long after the skies cleared that the bodies started piling up.

CPRC is supported by the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through Grant Number P40 OD012217.

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- Excess mortality: deaths that occur above and beyond what would have been expected in the absence of the disaster, extending beyond the immediate impact of the event itself.

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