The last Purple Langur in Europe - and sad to say I cannot really foresee seeing his like again! This particular animal, I believe, was born at the collection.
Cotswold went into the species in 2008, receiving 0,1 from Belfast and 2,0 from Twycross. These were the final remnants of two breeding groups at the respective collections.
I seem to remember they had the two males sometime before the breeding pair, so not sure if the above is exactly correct. I.e. there were four adults(3.1) Afaik the two males were always kept in one area (the Gibbon/Spider monkey cage) and the breeding pair in another(a cage in the courtyard area) and never together as a group. I thought the pair bred twice but may be wrong on that.
See above. The two males( of which I think this is one) were never kept with the breeding pair. I think the two 'pairs' of animals arrived there at different times too, with a year or perhaps more between their arrivals. I'm sure I saw just the two males on more than one visit before the pair arrived.
That short-tailed male langur was definatly living with the two Lar Gibbons when I visited on 11th May 2012.
In fact I remember they were both tormenting the poor langur by swinging down, tapping it on the head, and then moving quickly away again, much to the langur`s annoyance.
The purple faced langurs were all imported from Colombo zoo to Belfast, a small group was then sent to Twycross.
Our group bred quite successfully but unfortunately we lost a number of a period of a year leaving us with a single female and her male young 'Len' . These two animals left to Cotswolds who obtained a single male from Twycross.
I believe this male to be the young male born at Belfast but could be wrong.
Our group bred quite successfully but unfortunately we lost a number of a period of a year leaving us with a single female and her male young 'Len' . These two animals left to Cotswolds who obtained a single male from Twycross.
I believe this male to be the young male born at Belfast but could be wrong.
Maybe what I saw was firstly the male/female(mother/son) pair that came from Belfast, then later the Twycross male paired with the female, and her son- this single male -alone. That would tally with Al's description also.
