{"id":8749,"date":"2020-06-23T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T10:17:23","slug":"golden-langurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/golden-langurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Langurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Environment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Primatologists have observed that the Gee\u2019s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), endemic to the semi-evergreen and mixed-deciduous forests straddling India and Bhutan, induce stillbirth of babies killed inside the womb of females, besides practising infanticide.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crucial highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neprimateconservancy.org\/uploads\/1\/5\/3\/8\/15380094\/published\/gee-s-golden-langur2-may-2019.jpg?1557832038\" alt=\"Gees Golden Langur - New England Primate Conservancy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The scientific name of the species is known as <strong>Trachypithecus geei.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The geographic range of golden langurs is limited to Assam, India and neighboring Bhutan where they live year-round.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Golden langurs occupy moist evergreen and tropical deciduous forests as well as some riverine areas and savannas in Assam and Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Their hair ranges from dark golden to creamy buff and their faces are black and hairless except for a long pale beard. It has been noted that their fur changes colors according to the seasons.<\/p>\n<p><b>Conservations status:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2003, they were considered endangered by the IUCN Red List, and listed as Appendix I on the CITES website.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The main reason for low numbers of golden langurs is because of their localized habitat and the rapid loss of this habitat due to deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chakrashila is India\u2019s first wildlife sanctuary with golden langur as the primary species. Chakrashila has about 600 golden langurs whose population is scattered across western Assam and the foothills of Bhutan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Environment Why in news? \u2022 Primatologists have observed that the Gee\u2019s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), endemic to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}