Its coloring isn’t a pigment, but rather is due to specialized blood vessels close to the skin. What’s more, the red uakari is the only monkey with a completely red head. Mark Bowler, postdoctoral fellow at the San Diego Zoo Global Institute for Conservation Research, told National Geographic that while other monkeys have hairless faces, only one other species is bald-headed, the pied tamarin ( Saguinis bicolor). They look a bit like a mascot who forgot to put on the head part of his costume before going to work. These tree-top dwellers of the Amazon River Basin have a coat of longish auburn or white hair topped with a bright-red bald head. Monkeys can be cute, fierce, or majestic, but the red uakari ( Cacajao calvus) is downright surreal. Kaohsiung, Taiwan Photograph by Boris S., National Geographic Your Shot Red Uakari
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