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western purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus nestor)
Description
English: Trachypithecus vetulus nestor or Puple faced langur, in Athurugiriya, near Colombo, Sri Lanka
Date 21 December 2011, 06:54:52
Source Own work
Author Jeroen84
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purple_faced_langur.jpg
The western purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus nestor), also known as the north lowland wetzone purple-faced langur, is a subspecies of purple-faced langur endemic to Sri Lanka. It lives in the wet zone in western Sri Lanka around the former capital city of Colombo. Since 2004, it has been considered to be critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to an 80% decline in population over the previous 36 years, and the fact that the rate of population decrease is expected to continue unabated. Order: Primates, Family: Cercopithecidae. |
