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Gee's golden langur is found in an area of approximately 30,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi), much of which is unsuitable habitat, [21] bounded on the south by the Brahmaputra River, on the east by the Manas River, on the west by the Sankosh River, in Assam, India, and on the north by the Black Mountains of Bhutan. [22]
Gee's golden langur named for E.P. Gee. Like his contemporaries, Salim Ali and M. Krishnan, Gee was a non-official member of the Indian Board for Wildlife, the apex body that advises the Union Government on wildlife matters. Gee argued in favour of separate wildlife wardens within the Forest Department, who have specific powers in relation to ...
Conservation drive for golden langur by Nature's Beckon. The sanctuary covers an area of 45.568 km 2 (4556.8 hectares). It is around 6 km from Kokrajhar town, 68 km from Dhubri town and 219 km from Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati.
The area is a biodiversity hotspot and home to several endangered species, including the Indian rhinoceros, Asian elephant (pictured), wild water buffalo, tiger, sloth bear, pygmy hog, Gee's golden langur, and Bengal florican. The forests are constantly being renewed after floods and changes in the river courses.
At 26.5 kg (58 lb), the heaviest langur ever recorded was a male Nepal gray langur. [5] The larger gray langurs are rivals for the largest species of monkey found in Asia. The average weight of gray langurs is 18 kg (40 lb) in the males and 11 kg (24 lb) in the females.
Black-footed grey langur (Semnopithecus hypoleucos) Blyth, 1841; Tufted grey langur (Semnopithecus priam) Blyth, 1844; Capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) (Blyth, 1843) Phayre's leaf monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei) (Blyth, 1847) Nilgiri langur (Trachypithecus johnii) (J. Fischer, 1829) Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei) (Khajuria, 1956)
The Cat Ba langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus), also known as the golden-headed langur, is a critically endangered species of langur endemic to Cát Bà Island, Vietnam. It is among the rarest primates in the world, and possibly the rarest primate in Asia, with population size estimated at less than 70 individuals.
Those were made owing to its significance for conservation of Asian elephants, gaur or Indian "bison" and golden langur, all of which have large populations in the area. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Raimona National Park was declared a national park on 5 June 2021 by the announcement of the Chief Minister of Assam on the occasion of World Environment Day ...