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: any of several slender long-tailed Asian monkeys (subfamily Colobinae)
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The endangered infant, who hasn’t been named yet, was born with a head and body covered in orange fur, which will gradually darken to jet black within a year, as is the case with all François langurs.
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Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Leopards are notoriously elusive, but this is the single best place to try and see one, as well as sloth bears, water buffalo, mugger crocodiles, and gray langurs.
—Niall Causer, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
For a while, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, hewed to the belief that males were simply wired differently; one of her initial forays into academic research explored the penchant for infanticide among male langur monkeys.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
There are now 71 François’ langurs in zoos across the United States.
—Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
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Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Leopards are notoriously elusive, but this is the single best place to try and see one, as well as sloth bears, water buffalo, mugger crocodiles, and gray langurs.
—Niall Causer, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
For a while, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, hewed to the belief that males were simply wired differently; one of her initial forays into academic research explored the penchant for infanticide among male langur monkeys.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
There are now 71 François’ langurs in zoos across the United States.
—Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
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“Langur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/langur. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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