News Animals Macaques in Puerto Rico learned to share shade after Hurricane Maria Monkeys who are social were more likely to survive in the years following the storm A group of macaques groom one another beneath scarce shade on Cayo Santiago in May 2018, around eight months after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. Lauren Brent Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Erin Garcia de Jesús August 15, 2023 at 7:00 am After Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, monkeys living there forged new bonds to share a suddenly scarce resource: shade.