leaf monkey

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English

Silvered leaf monkey

Noun

leaf monkey (plural leaf monkeys)

  1. Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.
    • 2008, Martin Walters, Heather Angel, Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, →ISBN, page 57:
      White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.
    • 2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN:
      The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.
    • 2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN:
      Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.

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