SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A stroll around campus for one student serendipitously led to an encounter with a silvered langur on Sept 5, marking the first reported sighting of the monkey here.
Prior to this, there have been no records of the species in Singapore, according to the National Parks Board .
The medical student snapped a few photographs of the male silvered langur, which was alone. When he left half an hour later, the animal was still on the tree. The langur could either be Trachypithecus selangorensis native to the forests of West Malaysia or Trachypithecus cristatus found in Sumatra, Batam, Bintan and Borneo, added the head of primate conservation and Singapore programmes at Mandai Nature, the conservation arm of Mandai Wildlife Group.
“It is also normal for male langurs to search for new groups, so it is not unusual to see an adult male moving alone.”“Silvered langurs are known to swim pretty well. How long they can swim, however, is not known,” said Dr Ang.
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