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By Mongabay.com For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major ...
For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist ...
An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid substation caused a general island-wide blackout on Sunday, government officials said. 'A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer ...
As a species connected to our evolution, monkeys being in the news should not be surprising. We have a good 93%-95% of DNA ...
Asia Pacificcategory· February 13, 2025 Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to ...
Wild elephant encounters and ancient royal palaces are just some of the highlights of cycling through Sri Lanka, as Fiona Harper discovers.
Mrs Weerasekara delivered an insightful and timely speech on “Human Monkey Conflict in Sri Lanka and Strategies to Overcome the Challenge” highlighting the human-monkey conflict in Sri Lanka due to ...
“The Gathering” in Sri Lanka’s Minneriya National Park is said to be among the world’s most spectacular wildlife phenomena. Every year, hundreds of elephants gather on a dry lakebed in the park that ...
Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod (Sri Lanka) finds this serene scene of a young toque macaque ... Vinod spotted this young monkey sleeping between feeds and used a telephoto lens to frame the ...
A closer look at the Toque macaques living in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, and featured in this episode. Hector, a male toque macaque and leader of the temple troop in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.
These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus), also known as the purple-faced leaf monkey, found only in Sri Lanka. Purple-faced langurs ...
PIETER CORNELIUS DE BEVERE, Purple-faced leaf monkey (Trachypithecus vetulus), 1754-57 ... marine invertebrates and plants from Sri Lanka and the Malay Archipelago. Today, 154 of Pieter’s paintings ...