to the tail-monkeys counts the actual Sakis (type Pithecia), the Bartsakis (Chiropotes) with the Satan-monkey (Chiropotes Satan-ace) and the Uakaris or short-tail-monkeys (type Cacajao).
Shape Tail-monkeys seem already because of its shaggy and coarse-hairy fur less monkey-like as the night-monkeys resembling in the physique them. Of course, they don't possess the big eyes, d, as real Tagtiere either. h. the outstanding night-hunt-optics of the night-monkeys but sooner surprisingly small, little "appealing" eyes.
Way of life The tail-monkeys living highly as real tree-animals in the Blätterdach hike in often quite large family-associations along, and with especially extensive fruit or insect-offer, even foreign family-associations are accepted at the common feed-place into the own association. Besides plant-food, also the usual small animals of the Brazilian jungle are not spurned, and a researcher even reports that these monkeys would have gotten bats with day from its caves and would have consumed.
Characteristics The tail-monkeys are approximately 40 cm long; its tail measures 45 cm. A frequently held type is the monk-monkey (Pithecia monacha). Also the Indios hold tail-monkeys in the relaxed community of its villages or jungle-cottages. Sakis are the best far-jumpers under the Newcomer-world-monkeys .
Tail-monkeys connect a row of unexpectedly contrary characteristics: they usually have bare faces, whose meat-color of light-pink can extend to black over darkness-blue. they possess cuspids like cats, they sing like birds and jump like semi-monkeys; they can run on two legs completely "naturally", and the mothers carry its children with danger in the neck-grip at the outstretched hand.
Uakaris (type Cacajao)) The face of the Uakaris or short-tail-monkeys effect the first meeting even stranger, of which Uakari, Cacajao calvus and C the scarlet fever-face and this red. rubicundus, with the human being immediately the diagnosis "scarlet fever" could evoke. Shrunk it, humanly working head shows a face scarlet shining, even-such a Glatze with few white head-hairs and humanly molded ears. A whitish one surrounds the slim, movable body as well as. gold-colored fur, that includes also the half-long tail. With approximately 45 cm of head-torso-length, these monkeys are approximately so big as the remaining tail-monkeys, who live in the Amazon-area all. Two further types with black head and dark fur with black insignia are the black and the Schwarzkopf-Uakari, Cacajao roosevelti and C. melanocephalus.
Endangering Through destruction of its habitat, all tail-monkeys are threatened.
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