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Purus varzea (NT0156)


Purus varzea

The Red or White uakari (Cacajao rubicundus) with its distinctive crimson face, lives only in the Varzea flooded forests of the Upper Amazon.

Photograph by © WWF-Canon/Edward PARKER

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