Endangered
Indochinese lutung
Trachypithecus germaini
Germain's langur is an Old World monkey native to Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
Appearance
Germain's langur has black colouration on its hands and feet, as well as the upper part of its body that fades into paler grey on its underparts. Their young have bright orange fur.
Range and habitat
The limits of the distribution of Germain's langur are not well known, but they are currently found in Asia, specifically Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Thailand. In Lao PDR, the species has no continuous range, rather multiple patches of higher relative abundance. Germain's langur is a terrestrial arboreal species, often found in lowlands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The diet of Germain's langur is folivorous consisting of leaves, shoots, and fruits. Their folivorous diet dictates a resting period, in that they can undergo the process of rumination.
In crisis
Predators of Trachypithecus, among them the Germain's langur, include leopards, tigers, dholes, and large snakes. Prevalent threats to Germain's langur include hunting, exotic pet trading, and habitat loss due to agricultural expansion. T. Germaini is considered endangered by the IUCN, with a greater than 50% decline in the past three generations.
In Vietnam, their populations have increased in two protected areas, Phú Quốc National Park and Kiên Lương Karst Area, demonstrating the importance of conservation efforts.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Indochinese lutung 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 Indochinese lutung, Wikidata item Q1202908. 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.
