Bangladesh is home to less than 500 Phayre’s langurs and 600 capped langurs in the rainforests in the country’s northeast.

A recent study has unveiled a trend of hybridization between Phayre’s langurs and capped langurs in Bangladesh, which are listed as critically endangered and endangered, respectively, by IUCN.

By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/langurs-in-bangladesh-face-extinction-as-hybridization-between-species-escalates/

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