Nilgiri langur

The Nilgiri langur, Semnopithecus johnii, is an Asian langur with glossy black fur and an orangey golden-brown, hair-like mane on its head; females have a white patch of fur on the inner thigh. It lives in troops of nine to ten animals and eats fruits, shoots and leaves. Adult males are 78 to 80 cm long and females 58 to 60 cm, with tails of 68.5 to 96.5 cm. It is native to the Nilgiri Hills of South India, at 300 to 2,000 m in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and has been sighted in many protected areas including Periyar, Eravikulam, Bandipur and Mudumalai. Its classification has been disputed, and DNA evidence places it with the gray langurs rather than in Trachypithecus. The IUCN lists it as vulnerable; habitat destruction and poaching for body parts thought to have aphrodisiac properties threaten it.