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  • n  slender long-tailed monkey of Asia

  • Environmental activists say the road project will hurt the survival prospects of the Ha Tinh langur and its rarer cousin, the black langura species discovered only three years .
  • One of the rarest is the golden-headed langur.
  • For India's langur monkeys, infanticide works In his classic work On Aggression, Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz argued that man is the only species that regularly kills.
News & Articles

  • Bronx Zoo Debuts Three Primate Babies
    The zoo is now home to brown collared lemur, silver leaf langur and mandrill babies.
    June 26, 2013 - CBS New York
  • Photos: Three Adorable Baby Primates Make Their Bronx Zoo Debut
      Make room in your busy life and in your battered heart for these three photos of young primates charming the world at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo . The li'l cuddly creatures are from three different species; here we've got a Brown Collared Lemur, a Sliver Leaf Langur, and a Mandrill. All three births are part of the Species Survival Plan (SSP), a cooperative breeding program ...
    June 26, 2013 - Gothamist
Quotes

  • Russell Mittermeier in BBC News
    The Delacour's langur is in the top 25 of the critically endangered primate list,said Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International. "But the good thing about the Delacour's is that people are beginning to pay attention to...

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