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1
Phew. I thought the "not happy ending" was that the female monkey electrocuted herself, but she's fine. She just got stuck with a male monkey who wasn't her first choice.
2
From the article: "The study excluded Katrina and Audrey, outlier storms that would skew the model." When only the 47 most damaging hurricanes were selected, this seems … problematic.
4
I'm definitely filing this one under "preliminary results that probably won't pan out". An interesting review of the study:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/…
5
If anyone else was wondering why Bella can't just hang out with her damn boyfriend and doesn't have time to go 3 links deep;

When there are females in the troupe they are always led by a dominant male. In the wild when a young male reaches a certain age, he will either challenge to take over a group or move on...In captivity, they can't move on, so we had to make a second enclosure and split our group when a certain male comes of age. This is a temporary measure while we find a suitable new home...

I know, monkey restraining order was my first guess too.
6
This hurricane study isn't very convincing. There would need to be a number of studies that all found similar results, and which addressed the weaknesses discussed in the article, before reading much into it.
7
Damn you Debbie Downers pointing out flaws in the hurricane study! I was going to propose that all hurricanes be given female names from now on, the girlier the better. People who fear a hurricane less because of its name deserve whatever they get.
8
@8: what, and miss this great opportunity for branding? "Apple's hCain"


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