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UAKARI (Ouakari), the native name of certain tropical American monkeys, distinguished from all other New World monkeys by their short tails.

Ouakari
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see monkey.
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Monkey - any of a large and varied group of mammals of the primate order.

Uakari: leap of faith
Struggling to film uakaris living high in the tree-tops, Chadden Hunter finally got a glimpse of their spectacular aerial trapeze act.
About the Bald uakari ...

Uakaris are small South American primates with striking bald heads and bright red faces. (They may be attractive to mates because malarial or sick animals develop pale faces.) They have a long, shaggy coat that varies from reddish brown to orange.

Uakaris are often found in the tops of large trees. They rarely descend to the ground when the forest is flooded. They are mainly .
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Red uakari - CACAJAO CALVUS
Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: First Order Mammals (Primatea)
Family: Cebidae.

About Uakari
This unique South American monkey is easily recognizable, due to its bald head, and red face. Uakari are the only monkey in the New World that don''t have long tails.

Information on Ayres black uakari is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly
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Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris
Family Atelidae: howler, spider and woolly monkeys
Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys
Family Hylobatidae: gibbons, siamangs
Family Hominidae: Gorilla, chimpanzees, Orangutan, Human ...

tail-monkeys
to the tail-monkeys counts the actual Sakis (type Pithecia), the Bartsakis (Chiropotes) with the Satan-monkey (Chiropotes Satan-ace) and the Uakaris o...
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See also: Monkey, Opossum, Marmoset, Gibbon, Lemur