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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 ...
A total of 119 species of birds have been recorded in the Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary. This number includes three globally threatened species. [8] Some of the species recorded here include black francolin (Francolinus francolinus), jungle bush quail (Perdicula asiatica), lesser whistling duck, cinnamon bittern, Indian pond heron, cattle egret, purple heron, red-necked falcon, red-headed ...
The various species of langurs include purple-faced langur, the Nilgiri langur, the Gee's golden langur and capped langur. There is also the Phayre's leaf monkey. The suids in India are Indian boar and the critically endangered pygmy hog. There are lagomorphs like the critically endangered hispid hare, the woolly hare and the black-naped hare.
The biodiversity of Assam, a state in North-East India, makes it a biological hotspot with many rare and endemic plant and animal species. The greatest success in recent years has been the conservation of the Indian rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park , but a rapid increase in human population in Assam threatens many plants and animals ...
The birds’ arrival had birdwatchers flocking to the county from near and far, and their continued presence in the area is still causing a scene a decade later. The farthest north the popular pet ...
A number of bird species especially pheasant, tragopan and hornbill are easily threatened by changes to their habitat and those found here include the globally threatened rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis), Sclater's monal (Lophophorus sclateri), white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis), Blyth's tragopan (Tragopan blythii) and Ward's trogon ...
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)