Phayre's leaf monkey

The Phayre - Brillenlangur ( Trachypithecus phayrei ), also referred to as Phayres suppression coffee, is a primate of the genus Haubenlanguren. The specific epithet refers to Sir Arthur Purves Phayre (1812-1885), the first colonial administrator of British Burma (now Myanmar).

Description

The males reach a head -body length 51-55 cm, females are smaller with a length of 45 to 53 cm. The tail reaches a length of between 64 and 87 cm at the top has a dark tuft of hair. The weight is in the males 7-9 kg in females 5-7 kg. The coat is gray-brown on the back, bottom, and the lips are white. The eyes are surrounded by a wide, white, glasses-shaped ring. Face, hands and feet are black. The upper arms, legs, and tail are silver-gray. The elongated tuft hair occurs only in adult animals and is directed backwards.

Distribution and habitat

The distribution area of the Phayre - Brillenlanguren extends from Bangladesh and northeastern India on Myanmar, southern China ( Yunnan ), Thailand, Laos to Vietnam. Its habitat are primary forests and secondary forests with dense evergreen vegetation, bamboo vegetation, tea gardens and hillsides and river banks.

Way of life

These primates, like all Old World monkeys diurnal. They live primarily in the trees, but occasionally come to the ground. They live in groups of 3 to 30 animals, this is in contrast to most other Haubenlanguren not only harem groups with a male, but can also include several males. There are territorial animals against foreign groups defend their territory.

The food of these animals consists mainly of leaves, besides they also take saplings and fruit to himself. Like all monkeys, they have a multi-chambered Slim stomach for better utilization of indigestible food.

In general, the female gives birth to a single young is born, the first is orange - yellow in color, as with all Haubenlanguren.

Status

The IUCN classifies the species as " critically endangered " one. It is hunted for their meat, and in traditional Chinese medicine is their gallstones a salutary effect attributed. In addition, the progressive destruction of habitat is likely to pose a threat by deforestation.

System

The Phayre - Brillenlangur together with the Southern Brillenlangur and possibly the Tenasserim Langur the obscurus group within the genus Haubenlanguren.

There are three subspecies: T. p. phayrei, T. p. crepusculus and T. p. shanicus.