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The monkeys killed and ate Yapirikuri's aunt. Yapirikuri led the monkeys into an abiu (abieiro) tree to get fruit; his nephew Kuiniri made night fall. Yapirikari brought water in bamboos. When a monkey dropped a fruit, it splashed, and everyone realized a river had formed. The night monkey and red Uacari dropped fruits that fell on the bank, jumped down, and escaped (the latter losing his tail to piranhas in the water). Yapirikari began killing monkeys one by one with his blowpipe, but this was laborious and he did not have enough arrows. He let one arrow fly way high; it fell, splitting and felling the abiu tree. All the monkeys fell in the water and were eaten by piranhas and alligators except Mother-of-Monkeys and her grandson, whom Yapirikuri left on the stump, expecting them to die there. But they coaxed a ride to the bank on Alligator.

P. Alcionílio Brüzzi Alves da Silva SDB, Crenças e Lendas do Uaupes (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Manaos, Inspectoría salesiana Missionaria da amazonia Centro de documentação etnografico e missionario -- CEDEM, 1994), 230-232.