Endangered
Golden langur
Trachypithecus geei
Gee's golden langur, also known as simply the golden langur, is an Old World monkey found in a small region of Western Assam, India and the neighboring foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan.
Appearance
The coat of the adult golden langur ranges from cream to golden, on its flanks and chest the hairs are darker and often rust coloured while the coats of the juveniles and females are lighter, silvery white to light buff. The coat changes color seasonally, from white or cream coloured in the summer to dark golden or chestnut in the winter. The golden langur has a black face and a large whorl of hair on its crown.
Adult males weigh 10.8 kg (24 lb) on average and adult females weigh 9.5 kg (21 lb). The length of the head and body ranges from 50–75 cm (20–30 in), while the relatively long tail is 70–100 cm (28–39 in) in length.
Range and habitat
Gee's golden langur is found in an area of approximately 30,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi), much of that is unsuitable habitat, bounded on the south by the Brahmaputra River, on the east by the Manas River, on the west by the Sankosh River, in Assam, India, and on the north by the Black Mountains of Bhutan. The northern sub-population occupies the western portion of the Manas National Park, extending from the Sankosh River to the Manas River along the northern side of National Highway 27 and State Highway 2, reaching the India-Bhutan border. Conversely, the southern sub-population is situated along the southern side of NH27, extending to the Brahmaputra River.
In India, 93% of the population is found in forest reserves (Chirang, Manas, and Ripu) and the western part of Manas National Park, and the remaining occur in several small isolated fragments.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Its diet is herbivorous, consisting of ripe and unripe fruits, mature and young leaves, seeds, buds and flowers. It lives in high trees and has a herbivorous diet of fruits, leaves, seeds, buds, and flowers.
In crisis
The average group size is eight individuals, with a ratio of several females to each adult male. Gee's golden langur is currently endangered with a decreasing population trend. The total population of mature adults has been estimated as 6000–6500. The population has declined by more than 30% in the last 30 years and is expected to decline further shortly.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Golden langur is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Golden langur, Wikidata item Q284104. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
