Endangered
Miller's langur
Presbytis canicrus
Miller's langur is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Presbytis canicrus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
The fur on its back is gray with a grizzly appearance, and the fur on its belly is whitish. The upper part of its face is black while the lower part of its face is whitish, with the whitish part forming a U shape below the nose. It has a brown crown at the top of its head.
Miller's langur ranges from 48 centimetres (19 in) to 56 centimetres (22 in) long excluding tail and has a tail length ranging from 65 centimetres (26 in) to 84 centimetres (33 in). Males weigh from 6 kilograms (13 lb) to 7 kilograms (15 lb) while females weight between 5.5 kilograms (12 lb) and 6 kilograms (13 lb).
Range and habitat
Miller's langur is native to the island of Borneo in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. It lives in dipterocarp rainforests up to an elevation of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). It is endemic to East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is one of the world's most endangered primates, and was at one time thought to be extinct, until it was rediscovered in 2012. Miller's langur is listed as endangered by the IUCN due primarily to habitat loss, fragmentation and hunting. With little information available, it was thought to be extinct several times.
In 2012, a team of international scientists rediscovered it in Wehea Forest in East Kalimantan, Borneo, disproving its extinction. Experts speculate it becoming extinct in the very near future, due to multiple factors such as deforestation and overhunting for its bezoar stones and as a food source.
Miller's 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 Miller's langur, Wikidata item Q104248290. 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.
