Tufted gray langur
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| Tufted Gray Langur in Mudumalai National Park, Tamil Nadu, India. | |
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| Species: | S. priam
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| Semnopithecus priam Blyth, 1844
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The Tufted Gray Langur (Semnopithecus priam) is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is a leaf-eating monkey. It is found in southeast India and Sri Lanka.[1] It is one of several Semnopithecus species named after characters from The Iliad, along with Semnopithecus hector and Semnopithecus ajax.
References
- ^ a b Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 175. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
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