Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Climate Casualties?

howler monkeyWhen monkeys were found to be dying in droves in Costa Rica's Corcovado National Park at the end of 2005, a disease epidemic was the suspected culprit. Biopsies turned up nothing however, and now scientists theorize that the park's primates and other wildlife starved to death after months of extreme rain and cold.
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