Relief of a surprise

 

Relief of a surprise

Golden Langur!!!

Relieving!!!

Species: Gee's Golden Langur

IUCN Redlist Status: Endangered

Population Trend: 6500 and decreasing

Clicked on: Mar 2018

In: Sonapur, Digaru, Assam

Gear: Nikon D7200

Focal Length : 92 mm (35mm equivalent : 138mm)

   Well well well..they are supposedly found only in western Assam (between the Manas River in the east, Sankosh in the west and Brahmaputra in the south along the Indo-Bhutan border) and the foothills of Black Mountain.

Range of Golden Langur (courtesy IUCN)

   Also reportedly there were two pockets of introduced populations.  One, on the Umananda Temple Island in Guwahati the second some where close to Silchar.

   I visited Umananda temple hoping to see them, but we reached there only by dusk and were unable to see them.

   Totally unexpectedly, clicked these Langurs frolicking around on a forested hillock close to Sonapur (about 25 kms southeast of Guwahati and 14 kms southwest of Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary).

   Only on seeing the images on computer did I realize that these were not the ordinary Grey Langur which I had presumed them to be.

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