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The Stump-tailed
macaque (Macaca
artoides), which is found in the hilly forests.
Its fur is dark chestnut and shaggy. Its forehead is bald with only crown hairs
radiating from the center, short in front, longer at the back and on the sides.
The stump-tailed macaque is fairly terrestrial but does spend a lot of tome on
trees as well. They rarely stray for from their feeding trees. They are
relatively unafraid of man.
The Pig-tailed macaque
(Macaca nemestrima)
inhabits the some forests as its sstump-tailed relative, but it is more arboreal
and keeps strictly to dense evergreen forests. The body color varies; the dorsal
parts are grayish-olive to russet (with a buff to yellow tinge in places) while
the forehead and crown are darker. Its face is bare, light brown, and its crown
hairs are short, radiating form a central whorl and forming a thick cover of
erect hairs.
The Lion-tailed
macaque (Macaca
silenus), which can be distinguished from other
macaques by its long, gray or brownish mane around its face and its striking
black body. It has a tail almost two thirds the length of its head and body,
with a small tuft at the end. Is shy nature, black color, and its habit of
living in dense, dimly lit, lonely forests, it is rarely seen. The lion-tailed
macaque are very deliberate in their movements, and when crossing from tree to
tree, they avoid jumping, but descend to the ground and walk across in single
file.
The Hanuman langur
(Prebytis entellus)
is a large, black-faced, gray-bodied langur with long limbs and a tail which is
longer than its head and body. In the wild the Hanuman langur's keen
eyesight makes warning system against the tiger and the leopard, both of which
it hates without reservation. The langur live in large troops and their diet
includes some of the (for many creatures) most poisonous leaves, which are
avoided even by insects.
The Golden langur
(Presbytis entellus)
has a cream back which looks golden in good light, darker sides and a black face
with no sign of hair. it has a long tail with a fassel at the end. It lives in
dense, tropical deciduous forests, and is exclusively vegetarian. It is a shy
animal which leaps from tree to tree at the approach of humans.
The Capped langur
(Presbytis pileatus) is
a large, colorful monkey, it has a black face and head with sharply contrasting
paler cheeks suffused with red. The dorsal color is gray to blackish-gray and
the distal half of the tail too is black. They prefer dry tropical forests and
dense evergreen jungles. They are extremely shy, either taking flight through
the trees or sitting absolutely still when approached.
The Hodock gibbon (Hylobates
hodock) has small legs on which it runs,
sometimes along the boughs of trees, but usually it prefers swinging from branch
to branch, using its grotesquely long arms. It feed on fruits, leaves,
young shoots and birds, and is known to have a special liking for spiders.
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