Tufted Langur
Semnopithecus priam
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 1,489
- Most observed in
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam), also known as Madras gray langur, and Coromandel sacred langur, is an Old World monkey, one of the species of langurs. This, like other gray langurs, is mainly a leaf-eating monkey. It is found in southeast India and Sri Lanka. It is one of three Semnopithecus species named after characters from The Iliad, S. hector and S. ajax being the others. In Sinhala it is known as හැලි වඳුරා (Heli wandura).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tufted gray langur”.