Sentences with word «langur»

For example, in an earlier study, Sayers investigated the diet of langur monkeys living high in the Nepal Himalaya.

I turned around, looked up to the roof and saw them staring back at me: a troop of langur monkeys jumping up and down on the tile roof and having a hell of a good time.

Settle into Sukau Rainforest Lodge, a National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World, and take a cruise at dusk to look for orangutans, pygmy elephants, silvered langurs, hornbills, and proboscis monkeys.

Then maybe the fact that papaya seeds work as a contraceptive for adult male langur monkeys will:)

But don't let this put you off: the base helps protect the beach from developers, and is home to a small colony of cute dusky langur monkeys and dozens of cheap and excellent seafood stalls.

But with the help of some motion - sensing camera traps set up on the island, researchers who had hoped to capture images of rare leopards and orangutans ended up finding something no one had expected to see and a species never before photographed — Miller's grizzled langurs.

Right now, there are about 3,300 simakobu monkeys left in the dwindling forests of Indonesia; Less than 300 Cross River gorillas in the hills of Nigeria; Just about 110 black crested gibbons in Asia; No more than 100 sportive lemurs left in Madagascar; And fewer than 70 golden - headed langur left in the jungles of Vietnam.

Read about a custom by the sikh called langur.

Two years later, as Daniel headed off to the Solomon Islands to collect hair samples and Sarah left for India to study langurs, they married in Kathmandu.

She had witnessed male langurs attacking infants sired by rivals and leaving them for dead to clear the way for impregnating females with their own genes.

Security at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games did include 38 trained langur monkeys.

In India, a southern plains gray langur grooms a resting dog.

In 2002, Erik moved to New York City to attend graduate school and conduct research on the phylogeny of ebony langurs at the Bronx Zoo.

Keep an eye out for rare species, including the pygmy elephant, clouded leopard, Bornean gibbon, and maroon langur.

A huge drawcard for Yala National Park is their wildlife safari opportunities that reveal lithe Sri Lankan leopards, wild elephant, spotted deer, buffalo, wild pig, stripe - necked and ruddy mongooses, grey langur monkey, toque monkey, golden jackal and Indian palm civet.

Set 60 kilometres north of Nha Trang, visitors can enjoy a day of jungle - trekking, where they can spot wild monkeys, eagles, slow loris, and douc langurs.

Individual paintings focus on musicians and dancers and on langur monkeys and cows, both of which are venerated in Hindu culture.

Raha Dikhanaywalay Thay Hai Rahengay (Path Showers Were / Are / Will Be There) features langurs around and atop scriptural stone formations inspired by the arrangements of rocks in Japanese landscape painting.

This work followed on from Harsha's large 2013 installation Tamasha, made during the artist's residency at the DAAD, which featured life size langur sculptures scaling the façade of a building in Berlin - Mitte.

Nature lovers can also spot rare wildlife such as long - tailed macaques, silver langurs, slow lories, otters, and hornbills.

Aside from tramping through the forest, you'll see plenty of birdlife and monkeys — the latter particularly near d'Lagoon where there is a bunch of macaques (including one that is prone to psychotic episodes on Turtle beach) that you'll see, or hear as they munch on fresh mangoes, while between West beach and Tuna Bay there is a very playful chilled out family of dusky langurs — we saw them a few times on the roof of the Turtle Bay Divers office at the southern end of West beach.

Like many species living on the island of Borneo, Miller's grizzled langurs have been threatened for decades from poaching and the loss of their habitat due to slash and burn agriculture.

«Several species of lemurs, monkeys and apes — such as the ring - tailed lemur, Udzunga red colobus monkey, Yunnan snub - nosed monkey, white - headed langur and Grauer's gorilla — are down to a population of a few thousand individuals.

National parks like Eravikulam and Periyar, plus Wayanad and other sanctuaries, are home to elephants, langur monkeys and tigers.

The researchers collected fecal samples from wild and captive macaques, langurs, gibbons, baboons, and mandrills from Bangladesh and Cambodia.

He is a langur (monkey) deity revered by Hindus for being an exemplar of pure devotion, selfless service, complete surrender, egolessness and prana.

The park is home to many species including the Sun Bear, langurs, porcupines, deer, gibbons, lizards and civets.

If you're lucky, you can also spot rare wildlife such as long - tailed macaques, silver langurs, slow lories, otters, and hornbills.

You might even see a Cat Ba langur - one of the rarest langurs.

While storytelling endures at the heart of his practice, linear narrative remains absent from the loosely gridded compositions of Harsha's recent canvases, which feature successions of musicians and dancers, langur monkeys and cows (animals venerated in Hindu culture), dairy farmers and scientists.

First - of - a-kind surveys of forests in Karen state in southeast Myanmar also yielded records of at least 31 species of mammals, including tigers, Asian elephants, Phayre's langurs and dholes.