Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two medium-sized fruit-eating arboreal monkeys (Cacajao calvus or C. melanocephalus) of Amazonia, having a nearly bare stomach with long hair on the shoulders and upper back and a short bushy nonprehensile tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
saki .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
ouakari .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
arboreal monkeys , of the genus Cacajao, from theAmazon basin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Look at that uakari monkey in that tree someday he might help U ...
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Look at that uakari monkey in that tree someday he might help U ...
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The nine primates include howler monkeys Alouatta seniculus, night monkeys Aotus trivirgatus, titi monkeys Callicebus torquatus, black uakari Cacajao melanocephalus, weeper capuchins Cebus olivaceus, and white-faced sakis Pithecia pithecia.
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In 1985 there was a satellite survey of water levels and a scientist researching the endemic white uakari suggested an ecological station in Mamirauá which developed into the IDSM Mamirauá Institute at Tefé with a small basic laboratory and where from 1992 research has been ongoing into várzea ecology and local social and economic conditions.
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These include the black uakari monkey, pink dolphin (VU), grey dolphin, giant otter (EN), and jaguar. harpy eagle, What may be the largest population of Amazon manatees (VU) inhabits the black waters of Amanã Lake during the dry season, migrating during the flood season to várzea forest in Mamirauá, where its preferred foods are abundant.
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The mammals include long-tounged bat Scleronycteris ega (VU), two endemic primates, the white uakari monkey Cacajao calvus calvus which is found only within the Reserve and the blackheaded squirrel monkey Saimiri vanzolinii.
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The Mamirauá Reserve is home to the two narrow endemics, white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea 2008
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Terrestrial mammal diversity is smaller because the habitat is often flooded; two narrow endemic primates inhabit this region, the white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).
Purus varzea 2008
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