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Favourite Photos of 2007

Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Favourite Photos of 2007

This is one of our neighborhood purple-faced langurs, aka purple-faced leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus vetulus). He’s sitting on the telephone line just outside the window where I sit, using my computer. He’s close enough that I could have touched him if I stood up and opened the window. Well, and if he reached over to...
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Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur

Sunday, 6 December 2009
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Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur

One of our neighborhood purple-faced langurs is injured. Check out the red splotch on the  right arm. I hope s/he is okay and recovers fine from this. Similar Posts: Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes. Neighorhood Monkeys in Sri Lanka Favourite Photos of 2007 More Neighborhood Monkey Activity Purple-Faced Langur Monkeys at...
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Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!

Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!

In the first picture, the adult purple-faced leaf monkey, aka purple-faced langur, helps the little monkey up onto the top of the power pole. But then the little monkey decides to jump into the starfruit tree – dives right in! Then the adult monkey jumps in after the little monkey. You can see the...
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Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.

It turns out I was wrong. This does happen on occasion, yes. All those pictures I have of monkeys that I’ve been calling Gray Langur Monkeys are actually Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys or Purple-Faced Langurs (Trachypithecus vetulus). Thanks go to e4c5, aka Raditha Dissanayake, who said: that’s actually a purple faced leaf monkey. I know...
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Purple-Faced Langur Monkeys at Play

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
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Purple-Faced Langur Monkeys at Play

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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Neighorhood Monkeys in Sri Lanka

Sunday, 25 January 2009
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Neighorhood Monkeys in Sri Lanka

For your information, these photos were taken with the purple-faced leaf monkeys (or purple-faced langurs) around 60-100′ away from me and my camera, so while they may not be the best photos in the world, they’re pretty good for the camera and distance. We have – at a minimum – four neighborhood monkeys. I...
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