CBC The Nature of Things.Uakari-Secrets of the Red Monkey.20100218.HDTV.XviD.Ekolb2.avi

Scientist Mark Bowler is on a mission to find the rare and elusive red-faced Uakari monkey. His search takes audiences deep into the remote rainforests of Peru - a dangerous journey of many days. The Uakari is a creature of legend that until today has never been filmed in the wild because its home is 30 metres up in the canopy. To the local people these monkeys are the guardians of the rainforest: only they can release the seedpods inside the fruit of the aguaje palm, which feeds the many other exotic animals that share the forest. The naturalist who first described the red Uakari in the mid-19th century called it "a monkey of a most grotesque appearance." Now 150 years later, it may very well become the poster-child of the world's last great rainforest, the Amazon.

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• Peru
• Animals
• Poaching
• Hunting
• Save Nature
• Earth
• Save Planet
• Animal Orphanage
• Hunters
• remote rainforests of Peru
• Dr. Bowler
• aguaje palm
• geographic

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Dr. Bodmer! I worked with him in Peru! What an amazing trip!

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Dr. Bodmer! I worked with him in Peru! What an amazing trip!