#0434 · 🦊 mammals

Tufted Gray Langur

🇳🇱 Ceylonhoelman ·Semnopithecus priam

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The tufted gray langur ( Semnopithecus priam ), also known as Madras gray langur , and Coromandel sacred langur , is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is mainly a leaf-eating monkey. It is found in southeast India and Sri Lanka. It is one of three Semnopithecus species named after characters from The Iliad , S. hector and S. ajax being the others.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,544iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edward Blyth in 1844 (182 years ago).