This week, Lesley Stahl and a 60 Minutes team traveled to the island of Cayo Santiago— also known as Monkey Island— just off the coast of Puerto Rico. Cayo Santiago is home for about 1,800 Rhesus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monkeys move about on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, in Puerto Rico on Oct. 4, 2017. One of the first places Hurricane ...

CAYO SANTIAGO, Puerto Rico — As thousands of troops and government workers struggle to restore normal life to Puerto Rico, a small group of scientists is racing to save more than 1,000 monkeys whose ...

An island colony of wild rhesus macaque monkeys — the oldest primate research site in the world — suffered major storm damage, but no deaths. Hurricane Maria hit the Puerto Rican island of Cayo ...

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. But it also tore through a tiny island less than a mile offshore called Cayo Santiago. Although no people were living there, it was inhabited ...

Before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the macaques living on Cayo Santiago existed in a state of tolerable anarchy. But the disaster brought the monkeys together in unexpected new ways — ...

Cayo Santiago — a small island off the coast of the Puerto Rican mainland and a popular fieldwork site for Yale primate researchers — was directly hit by Hurricane Maria last month. The hurricane made ...

"00O made it!" There was some news to celebrate on Sept. 28 in the email chain of scientists who work at the Cayo Santiago Field Station. Cayo Santiago is a 38-acre tropical island off the coast of ...

Rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago are known for being intolerant, hierarchical and aggressive. After 2017's Hurricane Maria destroyed their home,... These monkeys were 'notoriously competitive' until ...