White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

A UCLA-led team of researchers used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the severe El Niño drought in Costa Rica to study the relationship between ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica with a stronger physiological stress response to mild droughts were more likely to survive the severe El Niño drought ...

Behind you rises a dense rainforest, where white-faced capuchin monkeys jump from branch to branch. Welcome to Costa Rica. I grew up in Costa Rica, and while I’ve lived all over the U.S., I'm ...