New study by Susan Perry and colleagues on the adaptive role of stress responses in surviving extreme environmental events

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BEC Faculty Susan Perry and BEC PhD student Ashley Mensing have co-authored a new paper in Science Advances on stress responses in white-faced capuchin monkeys, showing that more extreme stress responses provided adaptive benefits in surviving an extreme El Niño related drought.

See the UCLA press release here:

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/stronger-stress-response-in-monkeys-helps-them-survive

And the paper here:

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adq5020