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How Climate Change Could Starve the Monkeys

My sister the scientist makes a startling discovery in an Ugandan jungle.

By Julia Rothman
February 9, 2016

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Julia Rothman is an illustrator and author who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her latest book is Nature Anatomy.

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