Although he grew up near the mouth of the Amazon River, he had never seen one of its rare inhabitants, the Brazilian white uakari monkey, until he spotted one at a German zoo.

Kallolo told us that this species of monkey is known as the white uakari.

José Ayres sits with a uakari monkey, the primate that inspired him to study and then protect the Amazon rain forest.

The hunter, therefore, when in search of the white uakari, supplies himself with a small quantity of salt.