Mammals of the WorldCapped Langur
Trachypithecus pileatus
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cercopithecidae
- Genus
- Trachypithecus
- IUCN status
- VU
- Distribution
- India|Bhutan|Bangladesh|Myanmar
- Realm
- Indomalaya
Other names: Bonneted Langur|Capped Leaf Monkey|Capped Monkey|Blond-bellied Capped Langur|Blond-bellied Langur|Buff-bellied Langur|Buff-bellied Capped Langur|Orange-bellied Capped Langur|Orange-bellied Capped Leaf Monkey|Orange-bellied Langur|Tenebrous Capped Langur|Tenebrous Capped Leaf Monkey
About this species
- Diet
- Leaves, flowers and fruit from at least 43 plant species
- Habitat
- Subtropical and tropical dry forest; arboreal
- Range
- North-east India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar
The capped langur is an Old World monkey that lives in the trees. The sources opened for this entry give it as native to subtropical and tropical dry forest in north-east India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. This is the only place the species is described here, so the account below is general to the species rather than specific to Nepal (Wikipedia, general species account).
Capped langurs observed in Arunachal Pradesh spent nearly 40% of the daytime feeding on leaves, flowers and fruit. Leaves made up nearly 60% of the diet, and the animals foraged across as many as 43 plant species. The Mammal Diversity Database lists no Nepal record for the species, so its inclusion in this guide is flagged for checking.
Description: Wildlife of Nepal guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)