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[Original] Little knowledge about door island langurs, do you know?

2022-05-19 / 1525 Read

Mentawan langurs are endemic to Indonesia, where they are also known locally as Mentawai langurs. Nowadays, due to environmental changes and other factors, the door island langur is on the verge of extinction, so it is also protected by many countries. Next, let's learn a little about the door island langur together.

About

1. Basic information

[Chinese name] Mendao langur

[Latin name] Presbytispotenziani

[Another name] Mentawai Langurs

[Kingdom] Animalia

[Domain] Chordate

[Class] Mammalia

[Order] Primates

[Family] Monkey family

[Genus] Langurs

[Species] Papua langurs

[Distribution area] Indonesia

【Name and time】Bonaparte,1856

Second, morphological characteristics

The average body weight of door island langurs is in About 1.5 kg to 50 kg, they have fairly thick jaws, which is convenient for them to hunt. Most of its skulls have large cranial cavities and are generally spherical.

III. Living environment

1. Door island langurs like to inhabit subtropical and tropical forest areas, and most of them live in trees They live on land or live on land, but with the development of the times and the continuous changes in the environment, this group of monkeys has now suffered a huge threat, and even has no habitat to continue to survive.

2. When the door island langur communicates in the process of survival and reproduction, most of them rely on the calls or gestures they make, like those more intelligent door island langurs. Able to engage in a range of communications through physical contact.

3. Most of the time, door island langurs live in groups. Things like climbing and running are as easy as day-to-day play for the door island langur.

4. In daily life, the door island langur sometimes eats fruits, sometimes wild vegetables, even the tender branches. Of course, for those young worms or beetles, it will occasionally become a delicacy in their mouths.

At present, the door island langurs are in an endangered state. I hope you see them in the wild and don't hurt them!