Howletts Wild Animal Park Grizzled Leaf Monkey

MARK

MARK

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Howletts zoo is celerating the birth of a rare Grizzed Leaf Mokey, YAY, this group so far is the only place outside of Indonesia keeping them, lets hope more will be born soon. :)
 
Howletts have bred quite a few Grizzled leaf monkeys since they arrived after the big Indonsian fires in the late 90s, but the group has always hovered around ten, suggesting that, increasingly, the existing animals are related. Unless surviving offspring outnumber any losses, this group will lose it's potential to sustain itself within a few years. However, with a reputation like howletts, there may be potential for unrelated captive animals in Indonesia to join the group should this happen.
Sadly, even with the influx of more banded langurs at around the same time, there is maybe only one group of the several subspecies they have with animals of both sex remaining. I really hope they don't fade away like their Douc langurs did.
 
Howletts have kept doucs in the past, they were successful for a short period of time in the early nineties with a couple of births, but then the females in the group died within a short time of each other and the males were sent to Cologne,
 
Is Grizzled Leaf Monkey the same species as Silvered/Silvery Langur?

Bristol Zoo had a group of one(or the same)of these species about this time, and I have a postcard of some at Banham Zoo too. I don't know what happened to either of these groups, or if in fact they are the same species as the Grizzled Leaf monkey, but they did have similarly 'grizzled' coats.
 
Grizzled leaf monkeys are also known as Sunda leaf monkeys (Presbytis comata), they are not the same species as Silvered langurs. According to ISIS, the Schmutzer institue in Indonesia have a smaller group, of a different subspecies of grizzled/sunda leaf monkey.
 
Hadley said:
Grizzled leaf monkeys are also known as Sunda leaf monkeys (Presbytis comata), they are not the same species as Silvered langurs. According to ISIS, the Schmutzer institue in Indonesia have a smaller group, of a different subspecies of grizzled/sunda leaf monkey.
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No the Howletts and Indonesian Presbytis comata groups are the same, so it should be no problems to send animals between these two zoos.

Presbytis fredericae was formerly classified as a subspecies of Presbytis comata and this may be the cause for confusion, fredericae have a almost entirely black coat
 
I hope they can do as well with them as they have done with their Javan Langers they have bred quite a few of them with present numbers these days of around the 50 mark.

They hold a few species of rare leaf monkeys both at Howletts and Port Lympne including the Banded species which number 34 now and others.
 
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Hope the new baby is a female , they seem to have had lots of male births .
 
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