Kashmir gray langur

The Kashmir gray langur, Semnopithecus ajax, is a leaf-eating Old World monkey and one of the langur species. It has been reported from Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh in northwestern India, but evidence indicates that it occurs only in the Chamba Valley in Himachal Pradesh; in Pakistan it occurs in Machiara National Park. Because of its restricted range, fragmented population and threats from human agriculture and development it is listed as Endangered. It is arboreal and diurnal, lives in temperate and alpine forests at the highest elevation of any non-human primate, from 1,500 to 4,733 m, and weans its young at about 25 months, later than most Asian colobines. It was formerly a subspecies of Semnopithecus entellus and is one of three Semnopithecus species named for characters of the Iliad.