Britannica 11th · 11th edition

Uakari

Internet Archive OCR import

OCR text aligned to scanned pagesVol. 27, pp. 553-5531910–1911

Source evidence

Trace this article to the original publication

This entry is linked to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition. The cited range is Vol. 27, pp. 553-553.

Open source textOpen original scans

UAKARI (Ouakari), the native name of certain tropical American monkeys, distinguished from all other New World monkeys by their short tails. The three known species constitute the genus Uacaria (or Cothurus) of zoologists, and are confined to the forests of Amazonia and the neighbourhood. One of them (U. caliid) is remarkable for its long, silky, pale chestnut fur and brilliant scarlet face, which is naked (see PRIMATES).