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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 status ... Gee's golden langur: Trachypithecus geei: 6,000–6,500 [47] EN [47] [47] Estimate is for mature individuals. [47] Eastern gorilla:
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)
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.
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.
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 ...
Lastly, the White-headed langur (T. leucocephalus), previously thought to be a subspecies of the Francois langur (T. Francois) or Cat Ba langur (T. poliocephalus), is currently recognized as a distinct species by IUCN Red List assessors and the American Society of Mammalogists, based on a 2007 paper by Groves.