The gut microbiome is associated with GCs in capuchins and other platyrrhines, but I don’t know how this translates to bowel movements. Any sampling medium has its drawbacks, so we reduced any potential biases by including individual monkey ID as a random effect in our models.

Capuchins adapt to changes in the environment easily. For example, they access water in the dry season by eating the shoots of certain plants. In our study, the length of the drought likely made these plants and other secondary sources of water less abundant than other years.

These are some great questions! I addressed them individually below

GCs are linked to water balance/dehydration in humans and other animals. But this hasn't been closely looked at in capuchins. In wild animals it's difficult to disentangle the effects of low water availability from those of low food availability and high temperatures.

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🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive

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After 9 years in the making, it's finally out (!) White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought. Kudos to the heroic efforts of first authors Sofia Carrera and Irene Godoy. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....