Tarai Gray Langur
Semnopithecus hector
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 56
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇳 India
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The Tarai gray langur (Semnopithecus hector) is an Old World monkey, and was formerly considered a subspecies of the northern plains gray langur. The species is listed as near threatened, as there are probably not many more than 10,000 mature individuals, and it is experiencing a continuing decline.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tarai gray langur”.