This guy (I think…), a gray purple-faced langur monkey, visited us again. The pack of monkeys – there are five that we know of – visit us on occasion, and when they want to, they sure can move fast. Here he is, sitting on a power line just after the youngest one, about six...
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I took these pics of our neighborhood gray purple-faced langur monkeys yesterday afternoon. It started with a noise up on the roof, then Fahim saw a monkey through the window, so we went outside to our balcony to see what all the fuss was. And these pics of the gray purple-faced langur monkey are...
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I finally got around to asking what kind of monkeys these were, and Fahim told me that our friend Sona believed they were gray langurs, of which there are several species. The only one I find referenced with Sri Lanka is the Tufted Gray Langur (Semnopithecus priam), but comparing Wikipedia’s pictures of the gray...
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