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Yellow-handed Mitered Langur

Presbytis melalophos melalophos

Description:

Yellow-handed Mitered Langur (Presbytis melalophos melalophos), one of four subspecies of Sumatran Surili (Mitered Leaf-monkey), and known locally as "Simpai," in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. http://www.theprimata.com/presbytis_mela...

Habitat:

Seen beside the road that connects the towns of Sungaipenuh and Tapan, which crosses the border between Jambi and West Sumatra provinces.

Notes:

Every part of Sumatra has a different subspecies of leaf monkey with varying coloration. 4 species and 21 subspecies throughout the island (according to the 1987 edition of The Ecology of Sumatra). http://i44.tinypic.com/343gbk7.jpg

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7 Comments

luke.mackin
luke.mackin 11 years ago

Thanks, all! Finally uploaded this video of it (or another in its troop, I can't remember) enjoying some fruit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdG72mLgu...

Hunter Hebenstreit
Hunter Hebenstreit 11 years ago

Incredible!

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 11 years ago

Lovely! Fantastic!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Great spotting...

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 11 years ago

Great!

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Wonderful,,

Fyn  Kynd
Fyn Kynd 11 years ago

CUTEY!!! Great Spotting!

luke.mackin
Spotted by
luke.mackin

Jambi, Indonesia

Spotted on Sep 26, 2012
Submitted on Oct 2, 2012

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