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Monkey Skeletons and Aging
- Cayo Santiago also houses 3,300 monkey skeletons for research purposes.
- Studies on the island revealed that traumas like Hurricane Maria can accelerate aging.
Liberian Monkey Island
- A Liberian monkey island relies on daily feeding by researchers.
- Joseph Thomas has fed these monkeys twice daily for 40 years, knowing them by name.
A Tennis Deal for Monkey Research
- Betsy Bropman recruited Joseph Thomas for monkey research by offering a tennis deal.
- If Thomas taught her tennis, she let him work on her monkey research.