Status of Trachypithecus geei in a Rubber Plantation in Western Assam, India |
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| Authors: | Rekha Medhi Dilip Chetry P. C. Bhattacharjee B. N. Patiri |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology Lab., Department of Zoology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 781014, Assam, India;(2) Primate Research Centre, Northeast India, P.O. Box No. 152, Guwahati, 781001, Assam, India;(3) Wildlife Division of Kokrajhar Kokrajhar, Assam, India |
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| Abstract: | Golden langurs (Trachypithecus geei) are an endangered species in a limited area of Northeast India and Bhutan. They are confined to a forest belt in western Assam between the Manas River in the east, Sankosh in the west and Brahmaputra in the south along the Indo-Bhutan border. Due to habitat destruction, their populations are restricted to fragmented forest pockets, especially in India. We compared data on an isolated population of golden langurs in the rubber plantation of Nayakgaon in the Kokrajhar district of Assam, May 2002 with an earlier census in 1997. We counted a total of 52 individuals in 3 troops in 2002. The average troop size is 17.3 (r = 7–26). The ratio of adult male to adult females is 1:3.16. Of the total population 9.6% were adult males, 21.1% were adult females, 17.3% subadult males, 7.7% subadult females, 19.2% juveniles and 25% infants. In 1997 Srivastava et. al., recorded 38 individuals in 5 troops with an average troop size of only 7.6 . Apparently troop fusion has occurred. The increased population is encouraging. |
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| Keywords: | Golden langur rubber plantation habitat fragmentation isolated population |
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