Uakari Photo from Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhat you may not have noticed from the picture is the Uakari differs from most other South American monkey’s since they actually have a short tail.\u00a0 How do they hang around in the trees if they don’t have a long tail?\u00a0 Great question!\u00a0 Apparently they don’t actually need the long prehensile tail to swing from branch to branch.\u00a0 They get by just fine with their powerful arms and legs, which makes me ask the question of why the other monkey’s need such a long tail?\u00a0 It also makes me think that perhaps humans still have a chance to live a life in the trees.<\/p>\n
This New World Monkey is very social and can often be found living in a troop of more than a hundred individuals.\u00a0 This big, happy family will typically split out into smaller groups of 1 to 10\u00a0 in order to forage throughout the day.\u00a0 I wonder how they decide who goes into what groups? I feel bad for that poor monkey who gets picked last.\u00a0 Once darkness falls, this troop of Uakari’s will head to the canopy and sleep in the comfort of the trees.<\/p>\n
So there you go, a Monkey Monday Wild Fact for you on this beautiful Thursday.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you tomorrow for the last fact of the week.<\/p>\n
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Okay so maybe this week’s Monkey Monday Wild Fact is a tad late but nonetheless, here it is!\u00a0 That’s right, we are going to explore the life of a New World Monkey called the Uakari.\u00a0 I know, I thought it was a pretty funny name as well.\u00a0 If you want to actually pronounce the name properly then you need to say it like “wakari”, which is still pretty fun to say.\u00a0 Go ahead and say it one more time before continuing on……”Wakari”! Okay, moving on. These particular primates can be found hanging out in the trees of the South American <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,305,306,1893,1617,4025,333,1890,1891,1892],"yoast_head":"\n
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