MEXICO CITY – The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, the government said, with a tragically small number of the primates treated or recovering. Meanwhile ...
a lifeless monkey, unconscious from the heat, by a police officer hours and gave water, saving its life.” The video opens to show Tomar performing CPR on the unconscious monkey. As the video ...
Temperatures are soaring in Mexico, and the scorching heat is causing monkeys to drop dead from trees. Up to 85 howler monkeys were found dead in Tabasco in southeast Mexico, where temperatures ...
and younger monkeys seem to be particularly vulnerable to heat, according to a University of Michigan study. U-M anthropology doctoral student Jordan Lucore examined how the immune systems of wild ...
Pozo attributes the deaths to a “synergy” of factors, including high heat, drought, forest fires and logging that deprives the monkeys of water, shade and the fruit they eat. For people in the ...