Scientific Name: Trachypithecus vetulus
Animal Family: Cercopithecidae
Description: Males weigh somewhere between 15lbs (7kg) and 21 lbs (9kg) and female weigh between 11lbs (5kg) and 17lbs (8kg).The animal is a long-tailed arboreal species, identified by a mostly brown appearance, dark face (with paler lower face) and a very shy nature. The pelage may generally vary from blackish to grayish. The species tends to have whitish to gray short 'trousers' rounded off by purplish black faced with white sideburns.
Found Where: The purple-faced langur is found in closed canopy forests in Sri Lanka's mountains and the southwestern part of country' known as the ''wet zone''.
Habitat: The range consists of the most densely populated lowland rainforest areas of sri lanka purple-faced langurs are most often found in small and widely scattered groups. ninety percent of the langurs range, now consists of human populated areas. populations are critically low within and between sites
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