Northern plains langur

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  taun

• 28 Apr 2017

Lovely photo, assumed taken inside?

What is the inside like for these? Recent trip to Berlin Zoo and their monkey house is rather dark.

 

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  Goura

• 29 Apr 2017

@taun Actually it was outdoors - it's just that I was blessed with an overcast day. The troupe at Apenheul were in a very open area covered with steel (?) mesh. The ones at London were certainly in excellent condition.

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 18 May 2017

It's a shame there are no pure grey langurs in western zoos anymore

~Thylo

 

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  Goura

• 19 May 2017

@ThylacineAlive Could you tell me a little more about this - I wasn't aware there were hybrid langurs. What species/sub species would be the parents?

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 19 May 2017

I'm not sure on the parents, but to my knowledge all of the grey langurs in Europe are hybrids unfortunately. This makes the fact that London phased-out they're pure Sri Lankan Langurs back in 2010 even more frustrating.

~Thylo

 

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  Goura

• 19 May 2017

@ThylacineAlive ...interesting. I wonder what the rationale was for that decision