During the Cuc Phuong trip, we had an opportunity to choose a primate and observe it. I chose Red shanked Douc Langur that has a scientific name Pygathrix Nemaeus. His face is covered with reddish yellow color and have black eye with blue eyelids, also his chin is covered with white beard. All the "Red shanked douc langurs" looks like a pregnant woman with a gray shirt and black pants even if it is a male. His legs are red from knees to ankles and below the ankles are black, also from elbow from wrist are colored with white. Male red shanked douc langurs have two white tails with white rump patches, but instead female red shanked douc langur does not have white rump patches. Their tail is not prehensile The length of head to body of "Red shanked douc langur" is about 610~762mm. The length between head to legs is 610mm to 762mm; also the length of tail is 558mm to 762mm. Based on the IUCN red list, red shanked douc langur is in endangered level.
Observations of Primate
Red shanked douc langurs normally have their habitat in caves or canopy level of rainforest in Southeast Asia. But the one I saw in Cuc Phuong was not wild and it was in cage. In the cage there was little wooden house on top of the bamboo stick. The wooden house in the cage are on high places because red shanked douc langur is arboreal. The similarities between EPRC and wild is that they both have a place to avoid rain like in EPRC they can avoid rain in little wooden house and in wild they can avoid rain in cave, also they both have a place to sit down and eat like in EPRC they can sit on bamboo stick, and in wild they can sit on the trees. The difference between EPRC and wild is that wild having soft liana to brachiate, but EPRC have hard bamboo stick that...
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...ant to save my specie because if red shanked douc langur extinct, zoo can not have red shanked douc langur in their zoo and less customer will come to zoo. Second, I think it is not important to save my specie because if red shanked langur extinct more, leaves and fruit will gain more, herbivores will gain more specie and carnivores will gain more species too, and that is good for our environment. But overall, I think that if every primates die, then all other living creature will die too because the food chain will be destroyed.
Works Cited
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/redshanked_douc_langur.htm
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Pygathrix_nemaeus/
http://blog.conservation.org/2011/07/cambodian-ranger-station-will-protect-forest-for-gibbons-and-people/
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_is_a_species_classified_as_being_endangered?#slide=1
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