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Article: Highly elusive yet dwindling
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- November 25, 2003
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New Straits Times
11-25-2003
Highly elusive yet dwindling
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Earth Matters
THE red-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus) is a large leaf- eating monkey found only in Indochina - in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
It has a grey back and underparts, with black hands, feet, brow, upper legs and shoulders. The knees and lower legs are a rusty-red. The cheeks and throat are white and the face a reddish brown with a white muzzle.
This highly elusive animal is rarely observed in the wild and, as such, its exact numbers in the wild are unknown.
It is a CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) Appendix 1 species, ...