What I Learned on Monkey Island
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.
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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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