Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T13:13:55.559Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Golden Langur and the Manas Sanctuaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Philip Wayre
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Although first noted by E. O. Shebbeare in 1907, the golden langur monkey Presbytis geei was only named and described after E. P. Gee had found and photographed it in 1953 on the east bank of the Manas River on the Bhutan–Assam border. Both India and Bhutan have declared a Manas sanctuary, one on each bank of the Manas River. The author and his wife, who went to the Bhutan sanctuary to photograph and study this rare langur in the spring of 1967, describe the area as still wonderfully unspoiled, a verdict fully endorsed by the members of the FPS tour to India in February this year who visited both sanctuaries.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , September 1968 , pp. 337 - 339
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1968

References

REFERENCES

Biswas, , Biswamoy, , 1966, Authorship of the name Presbytis geei (Mammalia: Primates). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 63: p. 429–431.Google Scholar
Gee, E. P., 1955, A new species of langur in Assam. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 53:. 252–254.Google Scholar
1961, The distribution and feeding habits of the golden langur, Presbytis geei Gee (Khajuria, 1956).J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 58: p. 1–12.Google Scholar
Khajuria, H., 1956, A new langur from Goalpara District, Assam. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 12, 9: p. 86–88.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schaller, G. B., 1967, The Deer and the Tiger. University of Chicago.Google Scholar
Simon, N., (Ed.) 1966, Red Data Book. IUCN, Morges.Google Scholar