langur in English

noun
1
a long-tailed arboreal Asian monkey with a characteristic loud call.
Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).

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1. 24 Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque ; mandrill ; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey.

2. Since the western purple-faced langur is naturally arboreal, deforestation also impacts its activities besides eating.

3. 24 Delhi authorities have deployed a contingent of large black-faced langur monkeys at the Commonwealth Games venues to scare away smaller simians.

4. Purple-faced langur digestion is adapted to derive the majority of required nutrients and energy from complex carbohydrates found in leaves, with the help of specialized stomach bacteria.

5. ‘The forest is also home to tigers, jaguars, leopards, langur, black gibbon, Malaysian bears, pheasants, and crested Arguses.’ ‘In Vietnam there is a beautiful bird called the crested argus.’ ‘Pheasants, peafowl, argus pheasants, peacock pheasants, and jungle fowl (ancestor of the domestic chicken) are all related.’