Langurs

All 9 species of langurs on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

Conservation status

Where they live

Recorded in 19 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

Where to see them

Did you know…?

• Legend explains the black markings on its face and hands as scars from the burns Hanuman suffered.

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• It eats leaves, fruit, seeds and flowers.

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• It lives in a wide range of habitats across southern Asia, including large cities.

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• Its young are born a striking bright orange, very different from the silvery grey of the adult.

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• It has a multi-chambered stomach, much like a ruminant's, for digesting fibrous leaves.

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• It lives in coastal forest and mangrove of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

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• It is hunted in the belief that its flesh and organs have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties, a superstition with no basis whatever that remains one of its main threats.

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• It lives in the shola forests, patches of rainforest set among high-altitude grassland in the Western Ghats, a vegetation mosaic found nowhere else in the world.

Ecosystems