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Red-shanked douc moving in a tree. In captivity, red-shanked doucs use brachiation for almost half of their locomotion whereas, in the wild, arm-swinging accounts for an average of 18% of locomotion. Juveniles use arm-swinging the most (34.3%), followed by subadults (21.7%), adult females (17.6%), adult females carrying infants (15.5%), and ...
The Endangered red-shanked douc langur at EPRC Vietnam. There are around 180 animals at EPRC Vietnam and this number fluctuates over time due to release, or death of animals. Some animals born at EPRC Vietnam are the first of their species to be bred successfully in captivity such as the Catba langur, Delacour's langur and Gray-shanked douc ...
Old World monkey genera include baboons (genus Papio), red colobus (genus Piliocolobus), and macaques (genus Macaca). Common names for other Old World monkeys include the talapoin, guenon, colobus, douc (douc langur, genus Pygathrix), vervet, gelada, mangabey (a group of genera), langur, mandrill, drill, surili , patas, and proboscis monkey.
The Colobinae or leaf-eating monkeys are a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 61 species in 11 genera, including the black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed proboscis monkey, and the gray langurs.
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.
In 1972 Nardelli established the private Wild Felids Breeding Centre near Rome where he successfully bred in captivity several threatened species including the red-shanked douc langur Pygathrix nemaeus, the snow leopard Uncia uncia, and the clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa, all the first ever bred in Italy.
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The red-shanked douc is a species of Old World monkey native to Indochina which lives in the forests of Vietnam, southern Laos and possibly northeastern Cambodia. It is threatened by residential and commercial development. [2]