AR-News: (India) Monkeys, mostly females, abound in Himachal

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

1-February-2004 


Shimla, Himachal Pradesh has become the first Indian state to make a head 
count of monkeys, and has found it has 373,860 of them. The survey also revealed 
that there were more female monkeys than males spread all over the hill state 
barring a region bordering Tibet. 
Until now a census was carried out on a random basis to ascertain simian 
numbers, but this is a far more authentic count, say officials here. 
"There are 318,680 monkeys besides 55,180 'langurs' in the state," said A.K. 
Gulati, the state wildlife chief. 
Langurs are the black faced, long-tailed larger cousins of the monkeys. 
"Female monkeys outnumber males," Gulati said. "There were 96,570 male 
monkeys as compared to 124,028 female monkeys. The rest were infants." 
Likewise, females outnumbered males among the langurs. 
Of 12 districts, langurs outnumbered their cousins only in Hamirpur district. 





full story:
http://www.keralanext.com/news/index.asp?id=25266



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