AIRING ON CBC Canada Feb 25, 2010, 10pm. Deep in the Peruvian rainforest lives an rare primate- the Red Uakari Monkey, who serves a vital function in the jungle. Each wet season, when the Aguaje palm's fruit ripens, the monkey moves in to it's favorite patch and eats the fruit- dropping some on the forest floor which feeds the other animals that surround him. Now logging and hunting threaten the Uakari's domain- a new award-winning film on Animal Planet, BBC coming soon to CBC (April 8, 2010 at 8pm) on The Nature of Things follows the work of a young biologist trying to find out more about this amazing monkey. Never before filmed in the wild, filmmaker Peter von Puttkamer and his crew (Gryphon Productions) filmed over two seasons in the Amazon to capture amazing images of this rarely seen primate and draw attention to to need to protect it. www.gryphonproductions.com