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Bald-Headed Red Uakari (Cacajao rubicundus)

Photo by David Pearce / www.primates.com

The bald-headed red uakari have striking, bright red, hairless faces and very shaggy coats. They live in just one area of the Amazon flooded forest and are great leapers -- able to safely clear an 80-foot gap between tree branches. They travel in feeding groups of about eight. Their incisor teeth allow them to open up large and tough-husked fruits. Related species that also live in the flooded forests are the black uakari (C. melanocephalus), found in parts of Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil; and the red uakari (C. calvus), whose range is Brazil and Peru. Uakaris probably eat more kinds of fruit and seeds than any other Neotropical monkey.

Further Reading:

Animal Info www.animalinfo.org/species/primate/cacacalv.htm.
Goulding, The Flooded Forest.
Wolfe and Prance, Rainforests of the World.
From The Encyclopedia of Rainforests, a Rainforest Alliance book by Diane Jukofsky; 2002 Oryx Books, Phoenix.

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