Nature Atlas

How Nature Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Specy

Miller's langur

Mammals

Miller's langur, Presbytis canicrus, also known as Miller's grizzled langur or the Kutai grey langur, is a leaf monkey endemic to East Kalimantan on Borneo in Indonesia. It is one of the world's most endangered primates and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 2012 in Wehea Forest, outside its previously known range around Kutai National Park. It was formerly a subspecies of Hose's langur and was split from it on the basis of different morphology by Colin Groves and Christian Roos. It is 48 to 56 cm long without the tail, which measures 65 to 84 cm; males weigh 6 to 7 kg and females 5.5 to 6 kg. The back fur is grizzled grey, the belly whitish, and the upper face black with a whitish U below the nose. It is arboreal and diurnal, lives in dipterocarp rainforest up to about 1,000 m in groups of 5 to 12 with a single adult male, and feeds mainly on young leaves and shoots, then unripe fruit.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Herbivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Threats
Biological Resource Use 1
Relationship to People
Hunted or Fished 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Conservation Status
Endangered 2
Body Size Band
Medium 1
Activity Pattern
Diurnal 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Cercopithecidae, Taxa
Source Miller's langur (Wikipedia)

In Biome

Source Miller's langur (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

Source Miller's langur (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Miller's langur (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
It is endemic to East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Miller's langur (Wikipedia)Lead
Quote, Lead
It is endemic to East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
Sources
1. Miller's langur (Wikipedia)
  • Conservation status
    Miller's langur is listed as endangered by the IUCN
  • Habits
    It is arboreal and diurnal
  • Habits, diet
    A majority of Miller's langur's diet comes from young leaves and leaf shoots
  • Conservation status, threats
    due primarily to habitat loss, fragmentation and hunting
  • Conservation status, living or extinct
    In 2012, a team of international scientists rediscovered it in Wehea Forest
  • Lead
    It is endemic to East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
  • Distribution and habitat
    It lives in dipterocarp rainforests up to an elevation of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
  • Description
    Males weigh from 6 kilograms (13 lb) to 7 kilograms (15 lb)
View the Source
2. GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): GBIF species record for Miller's langur
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)Distributions, IUCN Red List
Quote, Distributions, IUCN Red List
[2].threatStatus: ENDANGERED
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.