leaf monkey
Noun
Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.
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White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.
The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.
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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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leaf monkeys