Endangered Primates of Sri Lanka - The Purple Faced Langur (Leaf Monkey)

The purple-faced langur also known as the purple-faced leaf monkey, is a species of Old World monkey that is endemic to Sri Lanka. The animal is a long-tailed arboreal species, identified by a mostly brown appearance, dark face and a very shy nature.
Rapid urbanization has led to a significant decrease in the population level of the monkeys.
Only small scattered groups exist in semi urban area's.
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Great video. However, its a shame you couldn't film them in their natural habitat because its been taken over humans. Just shameful. Hopefully their will be at least some sizeable populations of them in 20 plus years but Im not so certain. 🙄😥😥

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Thank you 🙏In the urban areas they move between human habitats and then spend the nights on small patches of trees . The sad part is even these havens are disappearing due to rampant construction. The good news is some of these troops are thriving with lots of babies. I have been monitoring a few and I see good progress of the development of babies to young adults . Again unfortunately because of damage caused to rooftops the majority of the humans don't really care for their presence. I plan to do a narrated video in the future like the other from the channel. Will take your comments in for sure 👍🏽