This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. In India monkey business takes on a whole new meaning. Hanuman langurs are trained in New Delhi to scare off aggressive ...

The golden langur is listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species ...

Golden langurs are arboreal primates found in the forests of western Assam and southern Bhutan. They have a golden to cream coat, are herbivorous, and live in social troops.

Other people hunt and trap these small monkeys to keep as pets. In southeast Asia, Francois Langurs are also a very popular "ingredient" for traditional medicine: they say it cures aches ...

SINGAPORE - A stroll around campus for one student serendipitously led to an encounter with a silvered langur on Sept 5, marking the first reported sighting of the monkey here. Prior to this ...

The men, aged 35-59, filmed themselves eating a langur monkey in November and streamed the video on Facebook. Police say the men confessed on Thursday to violating wildlife protection laws.

Life-size cut-outs of grey langur monkeys - which scare smaller monkeys - have been put up at various places and there are plans to deploy people trained to mimic the animal's sounds. Delhi has a ...