Mammal

Hanuman langur

Semnopithecus entellus

Two Hanuman langurs sitting on a wall above a wooded hillside

Image: datadan · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 · Amer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 26 December 2019 · Resized

What the sources say

  • JaipurA 1987 to 1988 study in Jaipur found langurs mainly in the temple and tourist area, at about 16.4 per square kilometre, against 262.1 per square kilometre for rhesus macaques. These are old figures, from the abstract.[19]
  • JaipurThe langur was the only primate recorded in Jhalana Reserve Forest.[11]

Sources

  1. Kumbhojkar S, Mahabal A, Rakholia S, Yosef R (2024). Avian and Mammalian Diversity and Abundance in Jhalana Reserve Forest, Jaipur, India. Animals 14(20): 2939 (journal). Peer reviewed camera-trap study, 2017 to 2019, inside Jaipur.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  3. Group number and composition of Hanuman langur Presbytis entellus in Jaipur, India (1987), and a 1987 to 1988 density study of langurs and rhesus macaques in Jaipur (journal). Peer reviewed notes. Only abstracts were available. The figures are old.

The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.