Word: langur
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...India's langur monkeys, infanticide works...
...concentrate in animal tissue. As a result, dangerous effects on animals and humans are "unlikely." But temporary defoliation over widespread areas could threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
...London's Natural History Museum, scientists read Sen's description and decided it sounded familiar. Rummaging around in the museum basement, they found the dusty carcass of a Langur monkey, a four-toed beast that lives on the snowy Himalayan slopes near Katmandu, capital of Nepal. To a frightened Tibetan, announced the scientists, the Langur might well look half-human and thoroughly abominable...
...camp, white monkeys swarm on the roof. When he looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...